Oliver Laxe

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Óliver Laxe
File:Oliver Laxe Portrait at TIFF 2025 02.jpg
Laxe in 2025
Born
Óliver Lage Coro[1]

(1982-04-11) 11 April 1982 (age 44)
Paris, France
Alma materPompeu Fabra University
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2006–present

Óliver Laxe Coro (Galician: [ˈlaʃɪ]; born 11 April 1982)[2] is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. Better known for his films You All Are Captains (2010), Mimosas (2016), Fire Will Come (2019) and Sirāt (2025). For the latter Laxe won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Early life

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Laxe was born in 1982 in Paris to Galician parents. They met at Bataclan at a dance party for emigrants[3] and worked as concierges in the 16th arrondissement.[4][5] Laxe's family comes from Lugo, his mother is from Vilela, Navia de Suarna,[3] while his father is from A Ponte de Outeiro, Castro de Rei.[6] He has a brother, Felipe, who works as a film producer and often collaborates on his films.[7][8] In 1988, after a picture taken by his father Jacinto, won a prize at the Paris Photography Salon, Laxe's father was hired to work selling photography materials in Manlleu, Catalonia. As the job was not what he expected, the family moved back to Galicia and settled in A Coruña.[9][4] He attended the IES Monelos (gl) and in his teens played for Básquet Coruña's youth team.[10][1]

After completing his secondary education he went on to study Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Vigo campus in Pontevedra,[11][12] because as he recalled: "There was no money to study cinema".[13] There he would hang out with the Fine Art students and stage art installations.[14][13] Disillusioned with his major, he moved to Barcelona where he finally studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University and did his Erasmus in London where he filmed his first short and final degree project Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar.[11][15][14] After graduating in 2006, he moved to Morocco.[15][16]

Career

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Laxe at the Goya Awards in 2020.

His debut feature film, You All Are Captains, premiered in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des réalisateurs) section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.[17]

His second feature, Mimosas, was filmed in the Atlas Mountains and screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize.[18][19] The project was developed through the TorinoFilmLab Interchange programme in 2011.[20]

Returning to his native Galicia, he directed Fire Will Come, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize.[21]

His fourth feature, Sirāt,[17] premiered in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize.[22]

Personal life

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Aside from his native Galician and Spanish, Laxe is fluent in French.[10][23] He can also speak Catalan[9][24] and English.[25] He changed his surname from the castilianized version Lage.[1]

Laxe has been living in Navia de Suarna, Lugo since 2020.[3][26] The family house, named Casa Quindós after his maternal grandmother, also functions as the headquarters of the Ser Asociation, which promotes cultural and environmentalist activities in rural Galicia.[3][27]

Filmography

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Feature films

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Year English Title Original Title
2010 You All Are Captains Todos vós sodes capitáns
2016 Mimosas
2019 Fire Will Come O que arde
2025 Sirāt

Short films

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Year Title
2006 Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar
2007 Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara
2008 París #1

Other Credits

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Year Title Notes
2010 Moussem les morts Only actor
2015 The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

Awards and nominations

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Laxe with the Jury Prize at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
Award Year Category Film Result Ref.
British Independent Film Awards 2025 Best International Independent Film Sirāt Nominated [28]
Cairo International Film Festival 2016 Golden Pyramid Mimosas Won [29]
Cannes Film Festival 2010 FIPRESCI Prize – Quinzaine des réalisateurs You All Are Captains Won [30]
Caméra d'Or Nominated
2016 Critics' Week Grand Prize Mimosas Won [31]
2019 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize Fire Will Come Won [32]
2025 Palme d'Or Sirāt Nominated [33]
Jury Prize Won [34]
Chicago International Film Festival 2025 Gold Hugo Sirāt Won [35]
Denver Film Festival 2025 Krzysztof Kieslowski Award Sirāt Won [36]
European Film Awards 2026 European Film Sirāt Pending [37]
European Director Pending
European Screenwriter Pending
Gaudí Awards 2020 Best European Film Fire Will Come Won [38]
Gotham Awards 2025 Best Director Sirāt Nominated [39]
Goya Awards 2020 Best Director Fire Will Come Nominated [40]
Hainan International Film Festival 2019 Special Jury Prize Fire Will Come Won [41]
Lumière Awards 2017 Best French-Language Film Mimosas Nominated [42]
Seville European Film Festival 2016 Grand Jury Award Mimosas Won [43]
Taipei Film Festival 2017 Special Jury Prize Mimosas Won [44]
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2019 Golden Alexander Fire Will Come Won [45]

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