
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Directing
Biography
Born in Barakaldo, Spain in 1978, she studied directing at the ECAM film school in Madrid. Since 2007, she has combined a career in directing commercials with more personal work in short films which have to date screened in over 400 Spanish and international festivals and won more than 100 awards. Cinco lobitos is her debut feature film.
Known For

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
Sundays

The story of Javier who, at the age of 16, while kissing a girl for the first time, realized that he had a gift of romantic clairvoyance. Javier can see the future... and he finally knows who the love of his life is.
Love at First Kiss

Miren goes to the police station with her lawyer and denounces her husband for continuous rape during a marriage, perfect for everyone who knows them, which has lasted more than 30 years. Her husband claims not to have done anything wrong and feels a victim, outraged and wronged. Their eldest son decides to support his father because he himself is afraid of having crossed that line. Their youngest son decides to support his mother because he has also felt that invisible violence.
Querer

Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter.
Lullaby

Javier Gorrigaramendi was the first big who broke Ana s heart. Sixteen years later he appears. Ana Teenager doesn t want to open the door. What does Ana Adult want?
Nena

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The Main Thing

Not everything that happens on a school playground is play. Short film about LGBT effects in school.
They Say

Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.
Nana

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Private Lessons

One Thursday a month Lucas, Río and Marcos play cards at Xabi's house, the perfect host. It seems like a regular game until Xabi tells them what he has been doing during the last month
Up to My Neck

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.