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).
Some films tell stories.Others invite us to listen. In In My Father’s Room, Maha Harada turns grief into a quiet investigation: after her father’s death, Satomi begins to discover the man behind the father she thought she knew. His room becomes a space of revelation, filled with art, poetry, rituals and the traces of a hidden inner life. Partly inspired by Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive, Harada embraces the power of small gestures and unanswered questions. A painting, a tea ceremony, an object left behind: everything seems to whisper. Presented in the Official Selection, In My Father’s Room is a tender meditation on memory and the mysteries that remain between those closest to us. A film to watch slowly, and to listen to carefully.



