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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).
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The Mexican director Andrea Martínez Crowther presented her film Cosas insignificantes yesterday in Zabaltegi and stressed how despite the fact that it exudes sadness, it is actually an ode to hope, which is what makes the story worth telling. “It’s true that I’m not interested in sentimental stories, because what I am interested in is the tough, bleak side of reality. However, what I’m really interested in is what hopeful elements there may be in the tough bleak side of things and not in telling an utterly hopeless story” the director says.
Daniel Hernández, who has a great deal of experience as a Spanish documentary-maker, is also competing in the same section with his first full-length fictional film, shot in Arabic, whose aim, in Hernández’s own words, was paradoxically “to document more faithfully the reality of the situation in Jamaa Mezwak,” the slum area of Tetuan where five of the Islamists who took part in the Madrid bombings in 2004 came from.
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