Оливер Лаш

Oliver Laxe (born 11 April 1982) 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 (A que arde) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize.

He was born in Paris, the son of Galician emigrants. He studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (after studying at A Coruña) and then he moved to London where he filmed his first short Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar.

His debut feature film You All Are Captains (Todos vós sodes capitáns) premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. 

His next film Mimosas was shot in the Atlas Mountains. It was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of the International Critics' Week section, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. The project had been developed through TorinoFilmLab Interchange programme in 2011.