No Spanish filmmaker has broken out to such quick auteurist stardom in the last five years than Alauda Ruiz de Azúa . Her first feature, “Lullaby,” a motherhood drama set on the Basque coast, was hailed by Pedro Almodóvar as “undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years.” First seen at San Sebastian 2024, four-part series “Querer,” turning on marital rape, went on to win the top Grand Prix at France’s Series Mania, Europe’s most important TV festival.

Now Ruiz de Azúa is back at San Sebastián in her native Basque Country with “Sundays” (“Los domingos”), her first feature at the festival and one of its most awaited main competition entries.

A trailer, made available on Tuesday to Variety , gives some inkling of what industry and audiences at large can expect. In a brief ans

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