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).
Nadia Turincev (Moscow, 1970) grew up in Paris and studied cultural anthropology. At the age of 12 she fell in love with Andrei Konchalovsky, and began to binge-watch films. At the age of 16 she was a trainee on Nikita Mikhalkov’s Oci ciornie (Dark Eyes, 1987), making sandwiches for Marcello Mastroianni. She worked as set interpreter and held various positions at ACE, Europa Cinemas, the European Producers Club, the EU Media Programme, the Festival de Cannes’ Quinzaine des Réalisateurs selection committee and was artistic director of the Moscow IFF. In 2007, she launched Rouge International with Julie Gayet and in 2017 Rouge Distribution. In 2019, she left Rouge to create Easy Riders Films with Omar El Kadi. Her films with Rouge include: Fix ME (2009), Raed Andoni, Bonsai (2011), Cristián Jiménez, A Spell to Ward Off The Darkness (2013), Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, The Treasure (2015), Corneliu Porumboiu, Mimosas (2016), Oliver Laxe, Raw (2016), Julia Ducournau, Visages villages (Faces Places (2017), Agnès Varda and JR, The Insult (2018), Ziad Doueiri, and Muere, Monstruo, Muere (2018), Alejandro Fadel. Easy Riders is currently co-producing Perros, Vinko Tomicic, Runner, Marian Mathias and The Fifteen, Zarazir brothers as well as developing The Golden Age, a drama series after the novel by Diane Mazloum and Onsen, an anthology film supported by Okinawa Film Office. She was a member of San Sebastian Festival’s Official Jury in 2016.