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
Sundays · 2025Sundays
★ 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.
They Say · 2011They Say
★ 7.02011
MovieDrama
Not everything that happens on a school playground is play. Short film about LGBT effects in school.
Love at First Kiss · 2023Love 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.
Nena · 2014Nena
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?
The Main Thing · 2006The Main Thing
★ 6.72006
MovieDrama
Nana · 2023Nana
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.
Private Lessons · 2005Private Lessons
★ 10.02005
Movie
Lullaby · 2022Lullaby
★ 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.
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