Oliver Laxe

Directing

Oliver Laxe

Born 1982-04-11 · Paris, France

Oliver Laxe Coro is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician origin. 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, where it won the Jury Prize.

Acting credits

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Filmmaker Oliver Laxe leads his crew and a group of ravers deep into the desert to shoot his feature, Sirāt. Within the confines of his hotel room in Morocco, something unspoken lingers in his chest as Laxe opens up for a recorded conversation. As filming intensifies in the barren landscape, the film begins to inhabit those who take part.

Vacío Luminoso

2026

El Padrimono poster
10.0

The university clubs of the UPV are criminal organizations: Trafficking, extortion, murders, illegal gambling happen under the EPSG. Gonza "El Porteño," a first-year student, falls into the biblioclub working for Sara "PRR," the deputy head of the mafia.

El Padrimono

2026

Aro berria poster
NR

San Sebastian, 1978. The workers at the water meter factory hold an assembly to discuss a strike, which ultimately fails. Disappointed, the most non-conformist workers turn their aspirations for radical transformation towards more intimate spheres. Some leave the factory to join an isolated community in the mountains, where dozens of young people embarked on an intense journey of shared cathartic experiences.

Aro berria

2025

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NR

A young boy searches for a forest on a post-apocalyptic desert planet.

The Wind Blew On

You All Are Captains poster
5.9

A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.

You All Are Captains

2010

The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser poster
5.7

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 that aims to be nothing less than a religious message. Black & white 16mm, without the language of reason, eye to eye with the primaeval puzzle. The story of Kaspar Hauser, the German 'wild child' who grew up for 16 years in silence and virtually in the dark in a stable with only a wooden horse as company, remains fascinating, also for filmmakers.

The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser

2013

Moussem les morts poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Moussem les morts

2010

Love Me Not poster
4.3

A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.

Love Me Not

2019

Krabi, 2562 poster
6.4

Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Krabi, 2562

2019

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers poster
7.1

Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the desert, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, a director abandons his own film set and descends into a hallucinatory, perilous adventure of cruelty, madness and malevolence. A Paul Bowles story combined with observational footage forms a multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself.

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

2015

Behind the camera

Sirāt poster
6.9

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

Sirāt

2025

Sirāt poster
6.9

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

Sirāt

2025

Sirāt poster
6.9

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

Sirāt

2025

No artwork available
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Filmmaker Oliver Laxe leads his crew and a group of ravers deep into the desert to shoot his feature, Sirāt. Within the confines of his hotel room in Morocco, something unspoken lingers in his chest as Laxe opens up for a recorded conversation. As filming intensifies in the barren landscape, the film begins to inhabit those who take part.

Vacío Luminoso

2026

Fire Will Come poster
6.5

When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.

Fire Will Come

2019

Fire Will Come poster
6.5

When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.

Fire Will Come

2019

HU /هُوَ. Bailad como si nadie os viera poster
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A three-projection installation introduces a world of desert landscapes subjected to the relentless rhythm of the sun, populated by the stark silhouettes of temples and loudspeakers, among which human figures dance.

HU /هُوَ. Bailad como si nadie os viera

2025

You All Are Captains poster
5.9

A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.

You All Are Captains

2010

You All Are Captains poster
5.9

A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.

You All Are Captains

2010

You All Are Captains poster
5.9

A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.

You All Are Captains

2010

París #1 poster
4.0

A group of friends share a cinematographical experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple: to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be filmed. They want their images to reflect the feelings that unite them with the people they find along the way.

París #1

2008

Mimosas poster
6.2

A dying Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas in a caravan escorted by two rogues.

Mimosas

2016

Mimosas poster
6.2

A dying Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas in a caravan escorted by two rogues.

Mimosas

2016

And the Chimneys Decided to Escape poster
NR

Footage yarn sliding over trees, fields, buildings, bulldozers, power lines... while a monotonous hum exacerbates the images.

And the Chimneys Decided to Escape

2006

And the Chimneys Decided to Escape poster
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Footage yarn sliding over trees, fields, buildings, bulldozers, power lines... while a monotonous hum exacerbates the images.

And the Chimneys Decided to Escape

2006

Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara poster
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A homage to Andrei Tarkovski made for the Spanish edition of the Chris Marker movie 'Une journée dans la vie d’Andrei Arsenevich'.

Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara

2007

Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara poster
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A homage to Andrei Tarkovski made for the Spanish edition of the Chris Marker movie 'Une journée dans la vie d’Andrei Arsenevich'.

Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara

2007

The Future is Goats poster
NR

Oliver Laxe brings us closer to his immediate world: To Vilela, where he tries to raise his vital project while reflecting on spirituality, the simple and the symbolic, on the soil on which our future is rooted. The return to the primary sector is a metaphor for how to take care of the landscape and let us take care of it.

The Future is Goats

2022