- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- October 21, 1958
- Place of Birth
- Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain
Julio Medem
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 …
Filmography
movie8
2025 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
movieThe Tree of Blood
2018 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
movieThe Pelota Player and the Fallera
2017 · Director, Screenplay
movieKalebegiak
2016 · Director, Editor, Writer
tvPaquita Salas
2016 · Julio Medem
moviema ma
2015 · Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
movie7 Days in Havana
2012 · Director, Editor
movieArrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta
2010
movieRoom in Rome
2010 · Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Screenplay
movieMe Too
2009 · Producer
movieChaotic Ana
2007 · Screenplay, Producer, Director, Editor
movieUno por ciento, esquizofrenia
2007 · Production Director, Producer
movieWith Good Reason
2004 · Director
movieLa culpa del alpinista
2004 · Writer
movieThe Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2003 · Self - Interviewer, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
movieSex and Lucía
2001 · Director, Screenplay
movieLovers of the Arctic Circle
1998 · Screenplay, Director
movieAirbag
1997
movieEarth
1996 · Screenplay, Director
movieHi, Are You Alone?
1995 · Author
tvLo + plus
1995 · Self - Guest
movieThe Red Squirrel
1993 · Screenplay, Director
movieCows
1992 · Director, Screenplay, Story
movieMartín
1988 · Director, Writer
movieSix on the Dot
1987 · Director, Editor, Producer
moviePatas en la Cabeza
1985 · Director
Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica
movieMinotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica
— · Director, Writer
Jai Alai
movieJai Alai
— · Director, Writer