Óliver Laxe
Laxe in 2020
Born
Óliver Laxe Coro

(1982-04-11) 11 April 1982
Paris, France
Alma materPompeu Fabra University
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2006–present

Óliver Laxe Coro (born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. His debut feature film You All Are Captains premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His third film Fire Will Come was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival,[1] where it won the Jury Prize.[2]

Early life

Laxe was born in Paris, the son of Galician emigrants.[3] In 1988, at the age of six, he went back with them to Galicia. After completing his secondary education in A Coruña he moved to Barcelona where he studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University, before relocating to London where he filmed his first short Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar.

Career

His debut feature film You All Are Captains premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His next film Mimosas was shot in the Atlas Mountains. It was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Critics' Week section, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize.[4][5] The project had been developed through TorinoFilmLab Interchange programme in 2011.

Filmography

Year Title Credited as Notes
Director Screenwriter Actor
2006 Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar Yes Short film
2007 Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara Yes Short film
2008 París #1 Yes Short film
2010 Moussem les morts Yes
2010 You All Are Captains Yes Yes Yes Cannes Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize (Directors' Fortnight)
Nominated— Cannes Film Festival - Caméra d'Or
2015 The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers Yes
2016 Mimosas Yes Yes Cannes Film Festival - Nespresso Grand Prize
2019 Fire Will Come Yes Yes Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard Jury Prize

References

  1. ↑ "Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Lodge, Guy (24 May 2019). "Brazil's 'Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão' Wins Cannes Un Certain Regard Award". Variety. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Óliver Laxe: "A cultura emancipa ao ser humano"".
  4. ↑ "Mimosas". Semaine de la Critique. Archived from the original on 2016-05-24.
  5. ↑ ""It's Good For You To Experience Disasters": Oliver Laxe on His Forthcoming Feature Las Mimosas". Filmmaker.
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