Arantza Santesteban

Directing

Arantza Santesteban

Born

1979-01-01 (47)

Place of birth

Iruñea, Nafarroa, Euskal Herria

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Arantza Santesteban (Iruñea / Pamplona, 1979) is a Basque filmmaker. She is a history graduate, and she holds a degree in Creative Documentary. She is a researcher working on communication, culture, society, and politics master's programme, and studies questions that relate to cinematographic representation, feminism, and contemporary political conflicts.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

918 Nights poster
7.5

On October 4th, 2007 Arantza, the director of the film, was detained and taken to prison. She remembers a few things about those days: endlessly walking around the prison exercise yard, swimming competitions, Rasha's prison journey... After 918 nights locked up, Arantza is set free. From then onwards, she recorded her memories and doubts, which are heard throughout the documentary as a kind of fragmented memoir.

918 Nights

2021

918 Nights poster
7.5

On October 4th, 2007 Arantza, the director of the film, was detained and taken to prison. She remembers a few things about those days: endlessly walking around the prison exercise yard, swimming competitions, Rasha's prison journey... After 918 nights locked up, Arantza is set free. From then onwards, she recorded her memories and doubts, which are heard throughout the documentary as a kind of fragmented memoir.

918 Nights

2021

In the Rain poster
NR

Euritan is a review of the narrative 'Klara eta biok', written by Itxaro Borda in 1985. Putting the author against the words of her past, it updates her view on the peripheral relationship around the Basque character.

In the Rain

2017

In the Rain poster
NR

Euritan is a review of the narrative 'Klara eta biok', written by Itxaro Borda in 1985. Putting the author against the words of her past, it updates her view on the peripheral relationship around the Basque character.

In the Rain

2017

In the Rain poster
NR

Euritan is a review of the narrative 'Klara eta biok', written by Itxaro Borda in 1985. Putting the author against the words of her past, it updates her view on the peripheral relationship around the Basque character.

In the Rain

2017