Melina León

Directing

Melina León

Melina León is the director, co-writer, and producer of Song Without a Name (Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2019), Peru’s submission for the Oscars. The film has premiered at over one hundred international film festivals and won more than forty awards, including Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival and the Montreal World Film Festival, Best Emerging Director at the Munich International Film Festival, Best Director at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and many more. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University, New York.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Song Without a Name poster
6.4

Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.

Song Without a Name

2020

Song Without a Name poster
6.4

Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.

Song Without a Name

2020

Song Without a Name poster
6.4

Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.

Song Without a Name

2020

No artwork available
NR

A lonely Romanian janitor in NY spends a night waiting for a phone call from his family in Romania. As the night goes on, his memories assault him with increasing force until there is no distinction between his past and his present.

Emigrant

2008

Girl with a Walkman poster
NR

Lost dreams in New York. One lonely girl wants to do something she might regret.

Girl with a Walkman

2007

Girl with a Walkman poster
NR

Lost dreams in New York. One lonely girl wants to do something she might regret.

Girl with a Walkman

2007

No artwork available
NR

It's Christmas night in Lima and José decides to steal a present for his little daughter.

A 45 for the month's expenses

2000

No artwork available
NR

Julia, a young classical composer, finds out she is pregnant and hesitates to have it. Alone in a clinic she dreams with a possible future with her son.

Julia &

2005

No artwork available
NR

Sick of being lonely, an exuberant dentist decides to "take care" of her handsome patient.

Sweet Poison

2003

El Paraíso de Lili poster
NR

In late 80s Peru, a precocious, rebellious schoolgirl finds that the personal truly is political.

El Paraíso de Lili

2009

El Paraíso de Lili poster
NR

In late 80s Peru, a precocious, rebellious schoolgirl finds that the personal truly is political.

El Paraíso de Lili

2009

No artwork available
NR

An American family has been living in a war basement for ten years, fearing a fatal terrorist attack and growing paranoiac about the outside world. Michael, the youngest son, gets sick of the whole thing and decides to take measures.

Somewhere in America

2004

No artwork available
NR

Short documentary.

Nabil Kanso in New York

2009

No artwork available
NR

She creates beautiful art and objects from recycled materials and provides job opportunities for dozens of women. An entrepreneur, tenacious, and creative since childhood, she is Lola Apolinario. A woman who transforms. And this is her story.

Lola Apolinario: Emprender, iniciar

2018

No artwork available
NR

Short documentary.

Tania Cerrón: El Camino del Bambú

2018

No artwork available
NR

Short documentary.

Renata Flores: Cantar, resistir

2018

No artwork available
NR

Short documentary.

Arena y Esteras

2016

No artwork available
NR

Alberto Descalzi, a blind ex photographer, has confined himself to an isolated house, with his beautiful wife Alicia, who has devoted her new life to be her husband’s eyes. They receive a young visitor and Alberto will ask him to take Alicia’s definite picture.

Memory of my eyes

2004