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

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. His third film ''

Fire Will Come ''Fire Will Come'' ( gl, O que arde, links=no) is a 2019 internationally co-produced Galician language drama film directed by Oliver Laxe. Filmed in the Serra dos Ancares area of Galicia, many of the cast were local people and not professiona ...

'' was screened in the

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section at the

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, where it won the Jury Prize.

Early life

Laxe was born in Paris, the son of Galician emigrants. In 1988, at the age of six, he went back with them to Galicia. After completing his secondary education in

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he moved to

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where he studied filmmaking at the

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, 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

. His next film '' Mimosas'' was shot in the Atlas Mountains. It was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of the

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section, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. The project had been developed through

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Interchange programme in 2011.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laxe, Oliver 1982 births Living people Male actors from Galicia (Spain) Film directors from Galicia (Spain) Spanish film directors Spanish male screenwriters Spanish male film actors Film directors from Paris Male actors from Paris Pompeu Fabra University alumni 21st-century Spanish male actors 21st-century Spanish screenwriters