30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: Panorama

Julia ist (2017) 16

Spain | 2017 | 96 min.

Júlia, an architecture student from Barcelona, decides to take an Erasmus year in Berlin. This is how Júlia leaves her parents home for the first time in her life. Full of expectancies and lacking life experience Júlia finds herself lost in a cold and grey Berlin, undergoing a student exchange year far from the adventure she initially imagined. Little by little she builds a life in Berlin and gets to know who she is in this new context. But as she gets to know the city from the inside out, the end of this adventure is coming closer and closer.

CountrySpain
Year2017
Duration96 min
Rating16
LanguageSpanish
SubtitleEnglish, Czech
Directed by Elena Martín
Screenplay Elena Martín, Maria Castellvi, Marta Cruañas, Elena Martín, Pol Rebaque
Director of Photography Pol Rebaque
Edited by Ariadna Ribas, Diana Toucedo
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Biography

A Spanish director and actress. She graduated in AV communications from Pompeu Fabra University and has worked in the theatre field. After studying at the Free University of Berlin, she established her own theater lab and she became an independent theater director and shot the film Julia ist (Julia ist, 2017).

Relationships, Friendship, Youth, Education, School