Oliver Laxe
Oliver LAXE (1982, France) is an actor and filmmaker. He studied Film at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His first feature film You All Are Captains (2010) won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes. His second feature Mimosas (2016) won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes. Fire Will Come was shot in Galicia, the land of his ancestors.
Filmography
Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar (2006, short), Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara (2007, short), Paris #1 (2008, short), Todos vós sodes capitáns/You All Are Captains (2010), Mimosas (2016), O que arde/Fire Will Come (2019)
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Oliver Laxe at IFFR
The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser
61'
Spain
IFFR 2013
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
96'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2016
Mimosas
96'
Spain
IFFR 2017
Love Me Not
A titillating, stylised film version of the story of John the Baptist and Salomé, against the background of a contemporary war.
82'
Spain
IFFR 2019
Fire Will Come
Convicted arsonist Amador returns to the village of his birth. Fire breaks out – does it mean the end of this bucolic community?
85'
Spain
IFFR 2020