Julio Medem

21.10.1958, San Sebastian

 

Director
Medem is a Spanish director and screenwriter, one of the representatives of Basque cinema. He graduated with a degree in medicine, but during his studies, he wrote film columns for the daily newspaper La Voz de Euskadi. His first film was the short film El Ciego (1974), after which he made several more. He made his feature film debut with Cows (Vacas, 1992), which tells the story of a clash between two Basque families. He afterwards made The Red Squirrel (La ardilla roja, 1993), Earth (Tierra, 1996), The Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Amantes del círculo polar, 1998), Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo, 2001) and a documentary about the Basque nationalist movement The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (La pelota vasca. La piel contra la piedra, 2003).

Filmography


Films by this director

The Lovers of the Arctic Circle

(Amantes del círculo polar, 1998)

Directed by: Julio Medem
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gonzalo F. Berridi
Synopsis:

Otto and Anna have been closely connected since their childhood. Later he falls in love with her, and she sees something of her dead father in him. In the meantime, their parents meet, immediately fall in love and begin to live together. Otto and Ana, now a brother and a sister, continue their bizarre love story…

color, 112 minuta

Sex and Lucia

(Lucía y el sexo, 2001.)

Directed by: Julio Medem
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kiko de la Rica
Synopsis:

After a tragic event, Lucia moves to an isolated island where she tries to grasp the circumstances that brought her there. In Madrid, she works as a waitress. One day after work, she goes to the apartment owned by her boyfriend Lorenzo. He is a writer and suffers from depression. There she finds his farewell note and news from the police. Six years earlier, Lorenzo had had a passionate affair with an unknown woman that resulted in the birth of his daughter Luna. Lorenzo only found out about his...

digital, color, 128 min

Chaotic Ana

(Caótica Ana, 2007.)

Directed by: Julio Medem
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mario Montero
Synopsis:

Ana is an eighteen-year-old artist living with her father in a cave on Ibiza. One day, Justine, a mentor to young artists, notices Ana’s talent and invites her to Madrid where she could go to school and develop as an artist. Ana accepts Justine’s invitation and befriends other artists who are under Justine’s wing. Linda becomes her friend and she falls in love with the mysterious Said. Soon, Said disappears…

digital, color, 118 min

Ma ma

(Spain, 2015)

Directed by: Julio Medem
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kiko de la Rica
Synopsis:

Magda is a young woman, wife and mother who is experiencing problems in her marriage. Soon she gets diagnosed with breast cancer. What follows is a melodramatic fight with the illness during which Magda meets a wonderful man and tries to instill life values in her son. Unexpectedly she gets pregnant and decides to, at all cost, save the baby.

color, digital, 111 min
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