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 Zabaltegi get-togethers that take place every day in the Club Room beneath the Victoria
Eugenia Theatre once again brought together directors and actors from various films. Yesterday these included the Dutch film Dusk, based on a real crime; La tête ailleurs, a metaphor on dreams according to its director; the “cynical comedy” Happythankyoumoreplease; the documentary Yves Saint-Laurent, the tense thriller Buried; and the Danish drama with comic touches, Smukke Mennesker/ Nothing’s All Bad.
The producer Stine Meldgaard Madsen and the actress Mille Lehfeldt presented the latter.
Lehfeldt plays Anna who has had a breast removed and has low self-esteem. The actress
explained that she thought it was a perfectly human reaction and that her character tried to find pleasure in things that seemed to be unpleasant and finally ended up recovering her self-esteem in pornography.
Lehfeldt summed up the film as a story about ”four lonely souls looking for love in different
ways.” The director who was unfortunately unable to attend the presentation is a well-known Danish TV critic and the producer stressed that this helped when it came to casting and raising enough money to carry out the project.
Ane RODRIGUEZ