Julio Medem

Julio Medem
Date of Birth: 28 Oct 1958
Country: Spain
Biography: Julio Medem Lafont (born 21 October 1958) is a Basque film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter.
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Director), 17 (Writer)
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Sex and Lucia
Lucia is a young waitress in Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island, where she begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship.
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance... (imdb)
Tierra
Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil... (imdb)
The Red Squirrel
Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge... (imdb)
Caótica Ana
Caotica Ana is the story-journey of Ana during four years of her life, from 18 to 22. A countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7... until 0, like in hypnosis, through which Ana proves that she does not live alone, that her existence seems like a continuation of other lives of young women who died in a tragic way, all at the age of 22, and who live in the abyss of her unconscious memory. This is her chaos. Ana is the princess and the monster of this feminist fable against the tyranny of the white man. (imdb)
Vacas
A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years. (imdb plot)
Room in Rome
A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls. (imdb)
La Pelota Vasca: La Piel Contra La Piedra
Documentary about the Basque nationalist movement in Spain.
7 Days in Havana
7 Days in Havana is a snapshot of Havana in 2011: a contemporary portrait of this eclectic city, vital and forward-looking, told through a single feature-length movie made of 7 chapters, directed by 7 internationally acclaimed directors. (mubi.com)
Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia
This documentary talks about schizophrenia, a mental illness that's still largely unknown.
Las seis en punta
To celebrate her 30th anniversary, Paula invites small Ignacio, a neighbor who lives two floors below. After blowing out the candles on the cake, Ignacio gives her a beautiful watch. Ignacio takes away the crystal glass and uses it as a monocle. Paula then sees that one needle is missing. It is stuck in her arm. (Filmaffinity)
Hola, ¿estás sola?
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain. Making stop in Madrid they search for inducement, work and independence. (Volker Boehm)
The Mountaineer\
The story of two girls and their strange relationship with the cold: Ana, who has a phobia of cold and especially the snow; and Alicia, a girl with Down Syndrome who lives in a home for the handicapped in Huesca and never goes outside to play especially if snow is falling.
Ma ma
Ma ma centres on a woman diagnosed with cancer who experiences a life-changing encounter with a man whose wife and child have been gravely injured in a car accident. (Screen Daily)
Patas en la cabeza
Concerned with the more or less imaginary love of its protagonist, who uses a mutual friend for his continuous and nervous messages to the girl who is the object of his desire (juliomedem.org).
Martín
The young Martín reluctantly spends the hot summer in Madrid with his parents, porters for a farm in the center of the city where they live. One day Julia arrives, an actress who comes to spend a few days in the vacated apartment of a friend (juliomedem.org).
The Tree of Blood
Rebeca and Marc travel to an ancient family house to discover a collective history over the last 25 years of love, passion, insanity and infidelity behind which lies one mystery which threatens to destroy their own relationship (imdb).