Sundays

To Ainara it feels like a calling. To those around her it lands like a loss, or a mistake, or something darker: is this her own free choice, or is the Church drawing a grieving, motherless girl away from the world? Her father keeps his distance; her aunt is certain she's being manipulated. What almost no one manages to do is simply listen to her.

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, who moved audiences with Lullaby (Cinco lobitos), returns with a subtle, quietly gripping chamber drama about faith, family and a young woman's right to decide her own life. A non-believer herself, she films Ainara's conviction without mockery and without easy answers, turning hushed domestic interiors into a masterclass of controlled, character-driven cinema.

Winner of the Golden Shell for Best Film at San Sebastián and later the Goya for Best Picture, Los domingos confirms Ruiz de Azúa as one of the most assured voices in Spanish cinema today.