And the Chimneys Decided to Escape
2006 · 13 min · Documentary
Footage yarn sliding over trees, fields, buildings, bulldozers, power lines... while a monotonous hum exacerbates the images.
Directed by Óliver Laxe · Written by Óliver Laxe
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★ 6.82025
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★ 6.42019
MovieDrama
When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.
Krabi, 2562 · 2019Krabi, 2562
★ 6.42019
MovieDocumentaryDrama
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★ 6.22016
MovieDramaAdventure
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You All Are Captains · 2010You All Are Captains
★ 5.92010
MovieDocumentary
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★ 5.72013
Movie
The story of Kaspar Hauser, who grew up in dark isolation from humanity, it is provided by a Gallician artist with a radical experimental adaptation that aims to be nothing less than a religious message. Black & white 16mm, without the language of reason, eye to eye with the primaeval puzzle. The story of Kaspar Hauser, the German 'wild child' who grew up for 16 years in silence and virtually in the dark in a stable with only a wooden horse as company, remains fascinating, also for filmmakers.
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★ 4.32019
MovieDrama
A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.
París #1 · 2008París #1
★ 4.02008
MovieDocumentary
A group of friends share a cinematographical experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple: to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be filmed. They want their images to reflect the feelings that unite them with the people they find along the way.
Vacío Luminoso · 2026Vacío Luminoso
2026
MovieDocumentary
Filmmaker Oliver Laxe leads his crew and a group of ravers deep into the desert to shoot his feature, Sirāt. Within the confines of his hotel room in Morocco, something unspoken lingers in his chest as Laxe opens up for a recorded conversation. As filming intensifies in the barren landscape, the film begins to inhabit those who take part.
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2025
Movie
A three-projection installation introduces a world of desert landscapes subjected to the relentless rhythm of the sun, populated by the stark silhouettes of temples and loudspeakers, among which human figures dance.
Aro berria · 2025Aro berria
2025
MovieHistoryDrama
San Sebastian, 1978. The workers at the water meter factory hold an assembly to discuss a strike, which ultimately fails. Disappointed, the most non-conformist workers turn their aspirations for radical transformation towards more intimate spheres. Some leave the factory to join an isolated community in the mountains, where dozens of young people embarked on an intense journey of shared cathartic experiences.
Moussem les morts · 2010Moussem les morts
2010
Movie
Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara · 2007Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara
2007
MovieDocumentary
A homage to Andrei Tarkovski made for the Spanish edition of the Chris Marker movie 'Une journée dans la vie d’Andrei Arsenevich'.
The Future is Goats · 2022The Future is Goats
2022
Movie
Oliver Laxe brings us closer to his immediate world: To Vilela, where he tries to raise his vital project while reflecting on spirituality, the simple and the symbolic, on the soil on which our future is rooted. The return to the primary sector is a metaphor for how to take care of the landscape and let us take care of it.
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