Arantza Santesteban
Directing
Biography
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
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
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
At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their films, their points of view, their dreams, their efforts to get somewhere, their contribution to the cinema and to society.