Hosted by the Basque Educational Organization.
The 20th Anniversary of the Basque Film Series will be celebrated with a special matinee screening of the film Lullaby. The screening will be at the Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema, located at 601 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. Dr. Pedro Oiarzabal will reprise his role of film presenter and will lead a Q&A after the screening.
Admission will be $10. For more information on this event, and to purchase a ticket please visit www.BasqueEducational.org.
In its 20 year run, the Basque Film Series has screened 86 full feature films along with 43 short films and has had 13 directors present their films at the Basque Cultural Center including Asier Altuna, Telmo Esnal, Oskar Alegria and Fermin Muguruza.
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.
2022, Directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, 104 minutes, color, in Basque, English, Spanish with English subtitles.
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.