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 op IFFR
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The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser
Alberto Gracia | 61' | Spain | World premiere
The story of Kaspar Hauser, who grew up in dark isolation from humanity, it is provided by a Gallician artist with a radical experimental adaptation… -
Love Me Not
Lluís Miñarro | 82' | Mexico | World premiere
A titillating, stylised film version of the story of John the Baptist and Salomé, against the background of a contemporary war. -
Fire Will Come
Oliver Laxe | 85' | France | None
Convicted arsonist Amador returns to the village of his birth. Fire breaks out – does it mean the end of this bucolic community? -
Mimosas
Oliver Laxe | 96' | France | None
Mystical wisdom and poetic suggestion go hand-in-hand in this quest filmed on beautiful 35mm under Herzogesque conditions in Morocco’s Atlas Mou -
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Ben Rivers | 96' | United Kingdom | None
In a film as mysterious as its title suggests, Ben Rivers portrays making a film as an exhausting and endless odyssey. Even though Rivers’ colleague,