Directed by Óliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe has been admired by those with an interest in the mystical side of cinema and the curious compounds created through intermixing documentary and fiction since the appearance of "You Are All Captains" (2010), his feature debut, made in collaboration with students at a filmmaking workshop for impoverished youths in Tangier. Now, the Franco-Galician director stands on the brink of a wider breakthrough. His latest film, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize-winning "Sirāt", is a hallucinatory odyssey across the wilds of southern Morocco—its lunar landscapes among the many astonishing vistas of Laxe’s cinema. As "Sirāt" draws new acolytes to his sensorially overwhelming brand of filmmaking, Metrograph revisits his body of work to date.
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Fire Will Come
Directed by Óliver Laxe | 86 mins | 2019
Filmed in and around Galicia’s Serra dos Ancares mountains, Laxe’s contemplative Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner "Fire Will Come" is the story of Amador (Amador Arias), a convicted firebug who has come home from prison to live with his mother, Benedict... -
You Are All Captains
Directed by Óliver Laxe | 78 mins | 2010
Born from a filmmaking workshop the director conducted with underprivileged children in Tangier, Laxe’s feature debut takes this real-life scenario as its premise but lights off into uncharted terrain when the pupils, rankling at his oblivious paternalism,...
