Oliver Laxe was born in Paris, France, in 1982. He is the son of Galician emigrants. When he was six years old, his family returned to Galicia, in the northwest of Spain. After completing his studies in Audiovisual Communication, he moved to Tangier, Morocco, where he self-produced and filmed Todos vós sodes capitáns, a film that earned him the FIPRESCI Prize at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2010. In 2016, he received the Grand Prize of the Critics’ Week in Cannes for Mimosas, shot in the Atlas Mountains. After returning to Galicia, he filmed O que arde in the heart of the Os Ancares mountains, a film that won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Fifteen years after his first premiere in Cannes, and having screened and won awards in all of its sections, Laxe achieved his first presence in Competition with Sirât, filmed in the Sahara Desert. Special Guests 2025 Robin Campillo Lucrecia Martel Jafar Panahi Juliette Binoche Special Guests in Other Editions Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Oliver Laxe was born in Paris, France, in 1982. He is the son of Galician emigrants. When he was six years old, his family returned to Galicia, in the northwest of Spain. After completing his studies in Audiovisual Communication, he moved to Tangier, Morocco, where he self-produced and filmed Todos vós sodes capitáns, a film that earned him the FIPRESCI Prize at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2010. In 2016, he received the Grand Prize of the Critics’ Week in Cannes for Mimosas, shot in the Atlas Mountains. After returning to Galicia, he filmed O que arde in the heart of the Os Ancares mountains, a film that won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Fifteen years after his first premiere in Cannes, and having screened and won awards in all of its sections, Laxe achieved his first presence in Competition with Sirât, filmed in the Sahara Desert.
