Óliver Lage Coro (born 11 April 11, 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. Better known for his films You All Are Captains (2010), Mimosas (2016), Fire Will Come (2019), and Sirāt (2025), which won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Fest.
Laxe was born in Paris to Galician emigrants. His parents, who met at Bataclan at a dance party for emigrants, worked as concierges in the city. Laxe’s maternal family comes from Vilela, Navia de Suarna, Lugo.
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He has a brother, Felipe, who works as a producer and often collaborates on his films.
In 1988, after a picture taken by his father, won a prize at the Paris Photography Salon, Laxe’s father was hired to work selling photo materials in Manlleu, Catalonia. The job was not what he expected, and the family moved back to Galicia.
In his teens he played for Básquet Coruña’s youth team. After completing his secondary education at the IES Monelos in A Coruña, he moved to Barcelona where he studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University, before relocating to London where he filmed his first short, “Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar.”
His debut feature film, You All Are Captains, premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2010 Cannes Film Fest, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.
His second feature, Mimosas, was filmed in the Atlas Mountains and screened in the Critics’ Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Fest, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize.
Returning to his native Galicia, he directed Fire Will Come, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Fest and won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize.
His fourth feature, Sirāt, premiered in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Fest, where it won the Jury Prize.
Aside from his native Galician and Spanish, Laxe is fluent in French, and can speak Catalan and English. He changed his surname from the castilianized version Lage.
Laxe has been living in Navia de Suarna, Lugo since 2020. The family house, named Casa Quindós after his maternal grandmother, also functions as headquarters of the Ser Asociation, which promotes cultural and environmentalist activities in rural Galicia.
Filmography
2010 You All Are Captains Todos vós sodes capitáns
2016 Mimosas
2019 Fire Will Come O que arde
2025 Sirāt
Short films
2006 Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar
2007 Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara
2008 París #1
Other Credits
2010 Moussem les morts Only actor
2015 The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
