Lullaby

When Amaia (Laia Costa) becomes a mother, she realizes that she doesn't really know how to be one. Her partner has to take a temporary leave of absence for work reasons and won't be back for a few weeks, so she, overwhelmed and unable to combine the task of caring for the little one and recovering her job as a translator, decides to return to the pretty coastal town in the Basque Country where they live. their parents to be able to share with them the responsibility of care. What Amaia does not know up to that moment is that despite the fact that she is now someone's mother, she is also her daughter and she will never stop being her daughter.

Upon arrival, her mother falls ill and it will be Amaia who has to take care of everyone. She will then be forced into the same life her mother lived thirty years ago as a housewife, with an absent partner, a daughter, and a grandmother who needs her attention. As family roles and dynamics change, a much deeper understanding emerges between them.

'Cinco lobitos' is Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's first feature film as director and screenwriter. The film was selected in the Panorama section of the Berlinale (2022) and at the Malaga Film Festival it won the Biznaga de Oro for Best Spanish Film, the Audience Award, the Best Screenplay Award, the Feroz Puerta Award Obscura, the Asecan Award for Best Debut Film, the Signis Award and the UMA Young Jury Award. In addition, the protagonists, Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez, have obtained Ex Aequo the Biznaga de Plata for Best Female Performance.