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).
Rather than presenting a film of her own, as she has done in previous years, the director and scriptwriter Albertina Carri is here at the Festival as a member of the New Directors jury to judge the work of her colleagues.
She has made shorts, TV films, features and documentaries but confesses it is the latter that she is least comfortable with as fiction comes much more naturally to her.As for the controversy that surrounded her most recent film Rabia, she presumes it was probably because it was violent, however she is not sure whether the violence she has suffered directly in her life has influenced her films, (her parents were murdered by the Argentine military dictatorship.) She thinks that not only Argentine cinema but Latin American films in general are thriving at the moment and says that she loves going to festivals because she can find films that you can’t usually see on the commercial circuit, and she’s always looking forward to seeing something different. She likes Croneberg, Scorcese and almost everything that Claire Denise has done.
She has just finished the script for what will be her fifth full-length film which will be called El vengador. It’s about a Robin Hood-type figure from the North of Argentina who was killed in 1967.