Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Directing

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Born 1978-02-01 · Baracaldo, Bizkaia, Spain

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Sundays poster
7.1

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

2025

Sundays poster
7.1

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

2025

Love at First Kiss poster
6.2

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

2023

They Say poster
7.0

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

They Say

2011

They Say poster
7.0

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

They Say

2011

Nena poster
NR

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

2014

Nena poster
NR

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

2014

The Main Thing poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Main Thing

2006

The Main Thing poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Main Thing

2006

Private Lessons poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Private Lessons

2005

Private Lessons poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Private Lessons

2005

Up to My Neck poster
7.0

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

2021

Lullaby poster
7.2

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

2022

Lullaby poster
7.2

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

2022