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).
Mike Goodridge is an international producer whose London-based company Good Chaos was established in 2020. His recent credits include Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger, Official Selection, 2025), Árva / Orphan (Lázsló Nemes, 2025) Zuo pie zi nü hai / Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou, 2025) and Sisu 2 / Sisu: Road to Revenge (Jalmari Helander). Goodridge produced two films shortlisted for the international film Oscar in 2024 – Snerting / Touch (Baltasar Kormakur) from Iceland and Santosh (Sandhya Suri) from the UK.
Previous credits include Sisu (Jalmari Helander, 2022), multiple European Film Awards winner and Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund, Cannes’ Palme d’Or, Perlak, 2022), multiple European Film Awards winner and Oscar nominee Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic, 2020) and two Cannes competition entries Tchaikovsky’s Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov, 2022) and Club Zero (Jessica Hausner, 2023).
Goodridge ran finance, production and sales company Protagonist Pictures from 2012 to 2017 where he oversaw over 70 films including Zimna wojna / Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski, Best Director Award in Cannes, Perlak, 2018) American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016), The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Jury Prize in Cannes, 2015), and The Florida Project (Sean Baker, Perlak, 2017)
He was the director of International Film Festival & Awards Macau from 2017 to 2020 and programmed for many years for Sarajevo, as well as consulting for Locarno, Chicago and Red Sea. He was a trade journalist, editor and critic for many years and has written three books on film.



