Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

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.

Works

A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers

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.

Release Date2023-09-22

Charactersd Self

Sundays

A 17-year-old idealist has to choose her course at university, and declares that she feels ever closer to God. Contemplating a membership within an enclosed religious order raises questions regarding the liberal principles of her father and her aunt, the latter who feels she should choose the life she wants but should experience life before doing so.

Release Date2025-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Love at First Kiss

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.

Release Date2023-03-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count197

Querer

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.

Release Date2024-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count29

Lullaby

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.

Release Date2022-05-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count118

They Say

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

Release Date2011-03-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Main Thing

Release Date2006-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Private Lessons

Release Date2005-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Nena

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?

Release Date2014-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Up to My Neck

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

Release Date2021-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Nana

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.

Release Date2023-11-26