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 Klasikoa section will open this year with Tasio (1984), the film directed by Montxo Armendariz, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of its premiere at the San Sebastián Festival, where it formed part of its Official Selection. This section, which since 2018, has recovered old and modern classics from the history of universal cinema, has in the last five years programmed films like Akai Tenshi / The Red Angel, 1966), by Yasuzo Masumura; Principio y fin / The Beginning and the End (1993), by Arturo Ripstein; Zacharovannaya Desna / The Enchanted Desna, 1964), by Yuliya Solntseva; Érase una vez... (1950), by Alexandre Cirici Pellicer and Josep Escobar; Festival en las entrañas (1963-1965), by José Val del Omar; Nueve cartas a Berta / Nine Letters to Berta (1966), by Basilio Martín Patino; Fúria espanyola / Spanish Fury (1975) by Francesc Betriu; Manicomio / Asylum (1953), by Fernando Fernán-Gómez and Luis María Delgado; Sátántangó (1994), by Béla Tarr or Lumière! L'aventure commence / Lumière! The Adventure begins (2016), by Thierry Frémaux, whose screening provided the starting point for this programme.
Klasikoak, the section that rescues old and modern classics from the history of universal cinema, was created in 2018, a year after the memorable presentation of Lumière! L'aventure commence, which featured a commented screening by the director of the Festival de Cannes and the Lumière Institute, Thierry Frémaux. In this section held in the Tabakalera cinema, restored versions are screened for the enjoyment of all-time classic movie lovers.