Julio Medem
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Julio Medem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish writer and film director. Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Vacas ('Cows') for which he won a Goya Award. After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes. In his next movie, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, which has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski, he explored circular narrative and a taste for minimalistic textures that he then overcame in his next film, Sex and Lucia, where the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. After this film he took a tangent from his style to direct and produce La pelota vasca ('The Basque Ball'), a documentary film about the political problems of the Basque Country, which caused a furor amongst Spain's right wing politicians. Following this, his film Caótica Ana debuted in 2007.
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Movies (25)
8
2025 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
The Tree of Blood
2018 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
Kalebegiak
2016 · Director, Editor, Writer
ma ma
2015 · Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
7 Days in Havana
2012 · Director, Editor
Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta
2010
Room in Rome
2010 · Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Screenplay
Me Too
2009 · Producer
Chaotic Ana
2007 · Screenplay, Producer, Director, Editor
Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia
2007 · Production Director, Producer
With Good Reason
2004 · Director
La culpa del alpinista
2004 · Writer
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2003 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Sex and Lucía
2001 · Director, Screenplay
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
1998 · Screenplay, Director
Airbag
1997
Earth
1996 · Screenplay, Director
Hi, Are You Alone?
1995 · Author
The Red Squirrel
1993 · Screenplay, Director
Cows
1992 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Martín
1988 · Director, Writer
Six on the Dot
1987 · Director, Editor, Producer
Patas en la Cabeza
1985 · Director
Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica
· Director, Writer
Jai Alai
· Director, Writer
