Oliver Laxe

Óliver Laxe
Laxe in 2020
Born
Óliver Laxe Coro

(1982-04-11) 11 April 1982 (age 42)
Paris, France
Alma materPompeu Fabra University
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2006–present

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 FIPRESCI Prize. His third film Fire Will Come was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival,[1] where it won the Jury Prize.[2]

  1. ^ "Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  2. ^ Lodge, Guy (24 May 2019). "Brazil's 'Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão' Wins Cannes Un Certain Regard Award". Variety. Retrieved 24 May 2019.