Julio Medem Lafont (born 21 October 1958) is a Basque film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter.

[1] Medem was born on 21 October 1958 in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain 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, with degrees in Medicine and General Surgery, he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor.

After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes.

His next film, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski[citation needed].