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 2008 Sichuan earthquake struck at 14:28 on May 12, killing 69,000 people and rendering 15 million homeless. Days later, Du Haibin arrived in Beichuan, the hardest hit town, and started shooting, letting his subjects address him freely. Fragments of (contradictory) reality therefore coexist without explanation, judgment or commentary, conveying an acute sense of chaos.


