
Santiago Esteves
Directing
Known For

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded

A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.
7 Days in Havana

This Spanish-language thriller and drama, directed by Santiago Esteves, follows two estranged brothers entangled in the dangerous business of helping people fake their own deaths. A complex operation puts their lives at stake and forces them to define the destiny of their family's legacy.
The Reborn

A policeman relates an old case. A young widow, an insomniac businessman, a horse forgotten in a stable. The city as the scene of a trap.
Los crímenes

Escaping from his criminal baptism, Reynaldo Galíndez, called el Rey, breaks into the patio of the house where Carlos Vargas, a retired security guard, lives. Carlos proposes Reynaldo a deal: he will repair the damage caused and, in return, Carlos will not call the police.
La educación del Rey

Marina, Sofía and Violeta are three teenage sisters who have just suffered the loss of the grandmother who raised them. Each one will live the mourning in her own way, in a house inhabited by a myriad of memories, responsibilities and tensions.
Back to Stay

Juan, a thirteen year old boy, and Marco, his blind father due to the Falklands/Malvinas War, travel to his chilhood town in the north of Argentina. There he will discover an unknown side of the father and will take its own path to adulthood.
Ciegos

Rodrigo lives in Córdoba. He runs and manages his dad's cabins for tourists. Summer is around the corner. One day he meets seventeen year old Juan, who has just arrived into town all the way from Buenos Aires.
The Other Summer

A famous actor makes an appearance in an inland village accompanied by his friend. After waiting for ages for the car they're supposed to return in, they decide to walk back. They get lost but continue on their way through the countryside, towards the woods, with no direction. Not suspecting that they are already inside the Hot Zone.
La zona caliente

In 1978, Jorge Cafrune, musician and Argentinian folklore icon, set out on horseback to cross the country to pay tribute to the liberator general, José de San Martín. On the first night on the road, he was hit by a van. Some believe that the crime was ordered by a [...]
Cafrune

After being in rehab for two years, Cesar now works in a small balloon factory in suburban Buenos Aires. His former father in law will force him to take care of his young estranged son, whose mother died in an accident. But Cesar has plans to give Alfonso up for adoption.
Los globos

Carlos is a friendly lineman who lives in the heart of a square in the big city, under a roundabout that the neighborhood gave up over time. He appeared there after having tragically lost his family in an enigmatic accident that no one knows anything about... Today, while he tirelessly seeks to reunite with his son Álvaro, he sweeps sidewalks in exchange for tips or something that helps him get through the nights of this winter that is being very cruel to your health.
La noche más fría

A famous TV actor negotiates conditions: what things does he accept and what does he reject to work one night on a "women only" album. The negotiation and the subsequent presence in the bowling alley will be a portal to an unknown space.
The Forest

Laura arrives in New York to join Viktor, a Hungarian filmmaker she has been working with on a documentary about Béla Bartók. At the same time Pierre, a film director from Paris, is in town looking for an actor to play the role of Bartók’s grandson in a fiction film he will be shooting in France. Fiction and reality are intertwined as the characters jump from one story to another in order to locate the missing parts of a puzzle that will unveil a mystery surrounding the death of the famous composer.
Peter Bartok Jr.

While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
White Elephant
Ignacio has the same dream every night. This dream is destroying everything from the inside of his mind: his job, his romance, his personality, his world. Is it a vision, a sickness, or a simple whim?
Un sueño recurrente

In a town engulfed by a wave of inexplicable violence, a detective driven by guilt and the memory of a dead friend investigates a strange drug that seems to alter human will. Absurd and dark powers will try to stop him.