Sundays
Los Domingos
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Grand Jury Prize
European Feature Films // Ville d'Angers - Le Monde - CINÉ+ OCS
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.
Scenario : Alauda Ruíz de Azúa
Cinematography : Bet Rourich
Sound : Andrea Sáenz Pereiro
Editing : Andrés Gil
Distribution : Le Pacte
Born in the Basque Country in 1978, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa holds degrees in English philology and audiovisual communication. She also studied filmmaking at ECAM (Madrid Film School). She won the award for best screenplay in a competition organised by the newspaper MARCA. She has directed several short films: Aritmética emocional (2003), Potential Danger (2004) and Clases particulares (2005). Lullaby, her first feature film, won a Goya Award. In 2024, she wrote and directed the mini-series Querer, a remarkable family drama that won the Grand Prix at Séries Mania. In parallel, she directed Sundays, her second feature film and winner of the San Sebastián Film Festival.