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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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Naomi Watts accepted the Donostia Award last night from J. A. Bayona, her eyes shining with the conviction that, despite nearly four decades in cinema, her story is far from finished. “I’m just getting started,” she said, visibly moved.
She thought of the young girl who once dared to dream of becoming an actress. The road was anything but easy. “There was so much rejection, but I just kept going”. “David Lynch saw me, and all those wounds from all that rejection now appeared as growth.” He gave her Mulholland Drive and, more importantly, “believed in me before I fully believed in myself.”
For her, filmmaking remains an art of uncertainty: “You can prepare for everything, and then something unexpected happens, and suddenly, you’re alive.” Acting, she said, means inhabiting other people and, along the way, discovering more of yourself.
She also spoke about being told, at 31, that her career would be “dried up and finished” by 40. Today, she is grateful to be “part of shifting that narrative”. And there is still no sense of an ending. “I’m still learning, and I’m still growing, and still discovering.” Perhaps her most telling words came near the end: “After all these years, I still want to know what happens next.” Then, with the Donostia in her hands: “David Lynch, I miss you.”
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