Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, United States, 1996) 90’
Cheryl (played by the director herself) is a black woman who is making a documentary about Fae Richards, a 1930s black actress popularly known as The Watermelon Woman. She also works in a video store. The film depicts Cheryl's lucubrations about the actress and stages her exciting love affair with Diana, a white woman, a regular customer at the store. The filmmaker's skill in bringing these two stories together makes the film a stimulating reflection on the representation of sexuality and race in cinema and an invitation to speculate on the boundaries between fiction and reality.