The Mountaineer’s Guilt
(La Culpa del Alpinista)
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Julio Médem / Spain / 2004 / 14 min
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Promising talent Daniel Sánchez Arévalo collaborates with Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia) in this poetic and eerie film about Ana. She has a growing phobia about the cold and she can’t stand being near the snow and is afraid of clouds and wind. Her mother takes her to a small sunny town by the beach. But the symptoms remain.
About the Directors
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo was born in Madrid in 1970 and has a B.A. in Business Administration. Having been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, he completed an MFA at Columbia University, New York, where he started his career as a director. Back in Spain, he won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in 2002 and 2003 at the Notodofilmfest with his films Gol and Expres. Fisica II, his first 35mm short film, has earned over fifty awards, including a pre-selection to the 2005 Oscars® in the Short Fiction Category.
Julio Médem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country. He started his career as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Cows (Vacas, 1992) for which he won a Goya Award. After this film he directed The Red Squirrel (La ardilla roja, 1993) and Earth (Tierra, 1996), both receiving international recognition by major directors such as Stanley Kubrick or Steven Spielberg. With his next movie, Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del círculo Polar, 1998) established himself as one of the great values of national cinematography. After the great success explores a lyric eroticism and tragedy with Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el Sexo, 2001). This film he took a tangent from his style to direct and produce The Basque Ball (La Pelota Vasca, 2003), a documentary film about the political problems of the Basque Country which caused a furor amongst Spain’s right wing politicians.Following this shot Caotic Ana (Caótica Ana, 2007) and his last film, A room in Rome (Una Habitación en Roma, 2010), is his first film shot entirely in English with an international cast.