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).
Beatriz Arias González (Santiago de Chile) studied film at the Universidad de Chile, where she started her career as a director and editor.
With an interest in narratives occurring in everyday life, in 2020 she presented her first short film, El callejón de las perras, winner of the Best Film School Short Film Award at FEMCINE. In 2024, in the Flash competition of FIDMarseille, she released her second, Volver a recorrer las mismas calles, which later competed in Nest at the San Sebastián Festival and in other Latin American competitions, such as FICValdivia and FICUNAM, amongst others.
In 2021 she was selected to participate in Talents Buenos Aires, an event which, in collaboration with the Berlin Festival, unites up-and-coming filmmakers from all over Latin America.
She is currently completing her third short film, Mira cómo respiran, and is also working on the development of her first feature film, Gloria a las desgraciadas.