By definition a film festival is a meeting point between the selected works, under the parameters that define each festival and the audience that go to the cinema to see them. In many occasions, it is also the opportunity to meet face to face with the directors, screenwriters and actors of these works that attend the festival to present their film, so the public can share a few minutes of conversation after the screening. Each year, there are lots of people that ask for more time to talk, not only about the screened works, but also about the different realities portrayed by the filmmakers, since we mostly know of these situations only by the mass-media.

Bilgune is born to take advantage of the presence of our guests; to expand our knowledge of them, their works and places of origin; to chat at length…

We want Zinegoak to be a main cinema- related meeting point that also serves as a base to be a meeting point between people that have stories to tell through their lives as citizens, artist or cultural promoters, always bearing the LGBT perspective in mind.

This year we are offering the possibility to know the motives and references of Juanma Carrillo, an up-and-coming filmmaker who is currently getting his first film, “Islandia”, ready, and with his old works (short films, video installations, etc.) has been around the world; the reality of the day to day of LGBT people in Russia and Indonesia, with Gulya Sultanova (St. Petersburg’s Bok to Bok Festival director) and John Badalu (Jakarta Q Film Festival); and we will talk to Carla Antonelli, who will receive the Solidarity Award from the Hegoak Association, and with whom we will talk about the last news regarding the legal advances for the transgender collective.