918 GAU

By Arantza SANTESTEBAN

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Female director - Completed 2021

*English subtitles selectables on the screening. In the tiny cell of a police van, a woman who had been in jail for many years told me: to tell what jail is, it is necessary to "put it to sleep." Almost a decade ago, I slept 918 nights in jail.

Festivals
& Awards

Docs Lisboa 2021
Premio Ciudad de Lisboa
Torino FF 2021
Premio Mejor Documental
L'Alternativa 2021
Sección oficial
punto de vista 2021
Premio Especial del Público
punto de vista 2021
Mención especial
Novos Cinemas 2021
Premio Latexos
San Sebastian FF 2022
Zinemira
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay 2022
Panorama Largometrajes Internacionales
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Female director, Drama, Social issues
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • Other
    • Duration
    • 65 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Arantza SANTESTEBAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Marian FERNANDEZ PASCAL (TXINTXUA FILMS SL), Marina LAMEIRO (HIRUKI FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • *English subtitles selectables on the screening. 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.