Filming begins on ‘Querer’, an original Movistar Plus+ series created, directed and written by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (‘Lullaby’)

Featuring Nagore Aranburu, Pedro Casablanc, Miguel Bernardeu, Iván Pellicer and Loreto Mauleón
Filming begins on 'Querer', an original Movistar Plus+ series created, directed and written by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (‘Lullaby’)

Nagore Aranburu, Pedro Casablanc, Miguel Bernardeau, Iván Pellicer and Loreto Mauleón, star in this four-episode series that will reach Movistar Plus+ in 2024.

After her recent national and international success with ‘Lullaby’, director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, winner of three Goya awards, creates and co-writes her first series that will be coming to Movistar Plus+ soon. An authorial project in which she turns her personal creative universe.

Movistar Plus+ International manages the international sales of the series.

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On Monday 23, filming began in Bilbao, 'Querer' is the first television series directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. The series will star Nagore Aranburu ('Irati', 'Intimacy', 'Loreak'), Pedro Casablanc (Almodovar’s ‘Strange way of life’), Miguel Bernardeau ('Elite'), Iván Pellicer ('Paraíso') and Loreto Mauleón ('Patria').

'Querer' is an original Movistar Plus+ series in collaboration with Kowalski Films and Feelgood Media. Filming will continue for 11 weeks, until next January, in different locations in Bizkaia. It will arrive on the platform in 2024.

Considered one of the most influential Spanish directors after winning the Goya for Best New Director for ‘Lullaby’ (Three Goya awarded film), Alauda Ruiz de Azúa signs, along with Eduard Sola and Júlia de Paz, the scripts for the four episodes that make up this series.

'Querer' features Sergi Gallardo ('La boda de Rosa') as director of photography. Zaloa Ziluaga (‘Ventajas de viajar en tren’) is in charge of the art direction and Marta Murillo ('Els encantats') of the costume. Itziar García Zubiri ('Dardara', 'Cholitas') is the production director. Juan Moreno and Koldo Zuazua are the executive producers.

Synopsis

Miren goes to the police station with her lawyer and denounces her husband for continuous rape during a marriage, perfect for everyone who knows them, which has lasted more than 30 years. Her husband claims not to have done anything wrong and feels a victim, outraged and wronged. Their eldest son decides to support his father because he himself is afraid of having crossed that line. Their youngest son decides to support his mother because he has also felt that invisible violence.

About Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa won the Goya for Best New Director with his first feature film, ‘Lullaby’, which premiered at the Berlinale and winner of two Biznagas de Oro at the Malaga Film Festival it was also a sleeper at the Spanish box office.
After ‘Lullaby’, she premiered ‘Eres tú’ for Netflix written by Cristobal Garrido and Adolfo Valor. ‘Querer’ is Alauda's first personal project after winning the Goya Award.

For more information please contact Lorena Molloy

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