---
name: "Oliver Laxe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oliver-laxe"
fi1m_id: "oliver-laxe"
imdb_id: "nm3890574"
tmdb_id: 1048523
wikidata_id: "Q20533059"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "11 April 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T19:15:56.296299+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Oliver Laxe

## Identity

Oliver Laxe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oliver-laxe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oliver-laxe
- **IMDb ID:** nm3890574
- **TMDB ID:** 1048523
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20533059
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Laxe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20533059, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3890574/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1048523

Producer and director. Born 11 April 1982 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 11 April 1982, Paris, France
- **Also known as:** Oliver Laxe Coro
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Laxe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20533059, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3890574/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1048523

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Sirāt*](https://film.one/film/sirat.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Óliver Laxe is a French-born Galician film director and screenwriter. Born in Paris in 1982 to Galician parents, he studied filmmaking at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona before moving to Morocco, where he established a film workshop for children.

His debut feature *You All Are Captains* (2010) premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Prize. He followed this with *Mimosas* (2016) and *Fire Will Come* (2019), the latter selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes where it received the Jury Prize.

Laxe directed and co-wrote *Sirāt* (2025), which premiered in competition at Cannes and won the Jury Prize. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, ft.com, latimes.com, apnews.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sirāt* (2025), Fi1m 83, Producer, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/sirat.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Vacío Luminoso* (2026), Producer
- *El Padrimono* (2026), as Oliver Laxe
- *HU /هُوَ. Bailad como si nadie os viera* (2025), Director
- *Aro berria* (2025), as Gurú
- *Sirāt* (2025), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/sirat.md)
- *The Future is Goats* (2022), Director
- *Krabi, 2562* (2019), as Commercial Director
- *Fire Will Come* (2019), Director, Writer
- *Love Me Not* (2019), Actor
- *Mimosas* (2016), Director, Writer
- *The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers* (2015), Actor
- *The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser* (2013), Actor
- *Moussem les morts* (2010), Actor
- *You All Are Captains* (2010), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *París #1* (2008), Director, Editor
- *Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara* (2007), Director, Screenplay, Cinematography
- *And the Chimneys Decided to Escape* (2006), Screenplay, Director, Cinematography
- *The Wind Blew On*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Oliver Laxe](https://film.one/media/person/7114/gallery-55b05621bc16.jpg) Oliver Laxe — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/MKr379752_Oliver_Laxe_%28Sir%C3%A2t%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr379752_Oliver_Laxe_%28Sir%C3%A2t%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cannes 2025 Award Winners Wide Shot on Stage](https://film.one/media/person/7114/gallery-c428722bce2b.jpg) Cannes 2025 Award Winners Wide Shot on Stage — Jennifer 8. Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Cannes_2025_Award_Winners_Wide_Shot_on_Stage.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2025_Award_Winners_Wide_Shot_on_Stage.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stars in the Walk of Fame in Cans, Spain. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/7114/gallery-b2016a5ddf17.jpg) Stars in the Walk of Fame in Cans, Spain. (2024) — Edvac, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Estrela_Cans._%C3%93liver_Laxe%2C_director._Coloquios_2020.jpg/1280px-Estrela_Cans._%C3%93liver_Laxe%2C_director._Coloquios_2020.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director and Screenwriter Oliver Laxe photographed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/7114/gallery-b09b268cff28.jpg) Director and Screenwriter Oliver Laxe photographed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Oliver_Laxe_Portrait_at_TIFF_2025_01.jpg/1280px-Oliver_Laxe_Portrait_at_TIFF_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director and Screenwriter Oliver Laxe photographed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/7114/gallery-8247d835ea2b.jpg) Director and Screenwriter Oliver Laxe photographed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Oliver_Laxe_Portrait_at_TIFF_2025_02.jpg/1280px-Oliver_Laxe_Portrait_at_TIFF_2025_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director and Screenwriter Oliver Laxe photographed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/7114/gallery-130dbe64d9a1.jpg) Director and Screenwriter Oliver Laxe photographed at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Oliver_Laxe_Portrait_at_TIFF_2025_03.jpg/1280px-Oliver_Laxe_Portrait_at_TIFF_2025_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Premio Mestre Mateo á mellor dirección 2019: Premio Mestre Mateo á mellor dirección (won), for *Fire Will Come*
- Premio Mestre Mateo á mellor dirección 2016: Premio Mestre Mateo á mellor dirección (won), for *Mimosas*
- Chano Piñeiro award 2010: Chano Piñeiro award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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