Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Directing

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Born February 1, 1978 · Baracaldo, Bizkaia, Spain (age 48)

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

SundaysSundays · 2025
Sundays
7.02025
MovieDrama
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.
NenaNena · 2014
Nena
2014
MovieComedy
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?
They SayThey Say · 2011
They Say
7.02011
MovieDrama
Not everything that happens on a school playground is play. Short film about LGBT effects in school.
Love at First KissLove at First Kiss · 2023
Love at First Kiss
6.22023
MovieRomanceComedy
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.
Up to My NeckUp to My Neck · 2021
Up to My Neck
7.02021
MovieComedy
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
NanaNana · 2023
Nana
2023
MovieDocumentary
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.
The Main ThingThe Main Thing · 2006
The Main Thing
6.72006
MovieDrama
Private LessonsPrivate Lessons · 2005
Private Lessons
10.02005
Movie

Movies

SundaysSundays · 2025
Sundays
7.02025
MovieDrama
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.
NenaNena · 2014
Nena
2014
MovieComedy
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?
They SayThey Say · 2011
They Say
7.02011
MovieDrama
Not everything that happens on a school playground is play. Short film about LGBT effects in school.
Love at First KissLove at First Kiss · 2023
Love at First Kiss
6.22023
MovieRomanceComedy
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.
Up to My NeckUp to My Neck · 2021
Up to My Neck
7.02021
MovieComedy
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
NanaNana · 2023
Nana
2023
MovieDocumentary
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.
The Main ThingThe Main Thing · 2006
The Main Thing
6.72006
MovieDrama
Private LessonsPrivate Lessons · 2005
Private Lessons
10.02005
Movie
LullabyLullaby · 2022
Lullaby
7.22022
MovieDrama
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.
A Deep Breath, Women FilmmakersA Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers · 2023
A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers
2023
MovieDocumentary
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.

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