Amaia (Laia Costa) has just become a mother. Her partner is away from home for months and she feels overwhelmed, incapable of looking after her baby and going back to her job as a translator. She decides to take refuge with her parents in her childhood home, in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country, with the hope that they will look after her and her baby. But life has other plans; her mother falls ill and it is Amaia who will have to look after her parents. She finds herself living the life her mother had thirty years before. She becomes a housewife, with an absent partner, caring for a baby and a sick grandmother. Family roles are reversed, changing their relationships forever. The daughter becomes everyone’s mother. Amaia, who until now only loved her mother, begins to understand her.
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Festival Appearances
Berlin International Film Festival 2022
Málaga Spanish Film Festival 2022 – Best First Film, Best Film
Seattle International Film Festival 2022
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2022
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Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa studied Audiovisual Communication and English in the Basque Country, following which she moved to Madrid where she graduated in Film Direction from ECAM in 2005. Her graduation project, the short film Clases Particulares (Private Lessons, 2005), won over 30 awards. Her short films include: Dicen (They Say, 2011), which participated in over 160 festivals, won some 50 awards and was the Spanish short film which received most awards in its year; and Nena (2014), which competed in the Austin Film Festival. Cinco Lobitos (Lullaby) is her first feature film as writer and director.
Sat, 5 Nov | 2:35 pm | Picture Time 1
