Cinco Lobitos / Lullaby

DRAMA
SHOWING: MAY 18

SYNOPSIS:

Amaia has recently become a mother. Her partner is away for months at a time and she is overwhelmed, unable to take care of her baby and return to her work as a translator. She decides to hole up at her parents house in the hope that they will take care of both herself and her baby in the place where she grew up, a pretty coastal town in the Basque Country. But life has other plans; her mother falls ill and it is Amaia who has to look after them all. She finds herself obliged to live her mother’s life of thirty years ago. She becomes a housewife, with an absent partner, in charge of a baby and an ailing grandmother. The family roles are reversed, forever changing their relations. The daughter becomes everyone’s mother. Amaia, who had only loved her mother until now, will also start to understand her.

Selected for the 2022 San Sebastian International Film Festival
2022, Directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, 104 minutes, color, in Basque, English, Spanish with English subtitles.

We will be celebrating the BEO’s Basque Film Series 20th Anniversary with this film screening. To celebrate this event, we will be hosting a different kind of screening. Please VISIT HERE to learn more.

About the Director – Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Barakaldo, Bizkaia.1978) graduated in Film Directing at the ECAM in 2005. Her graduation work, the short film Clases particulares, won more than 30 awards. After her studies she worked as an assistant director and script supervisor until she made the shift to the production of commercials in 2007. She has directed the short films Lo importante (2007), Dicen (2011), Nena (2014) and No me da la vida (2021), screened at 400 festivals and winners of more than 100 awards. Cinco lobitos, her first feature film, screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale and was the big winner at Malaga Festival, where it landed the Golden Biznaga for Best Spanish Film, the Silver Biznagas for Best Actress (Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez) and Best Screenplay and the Audience Award.