MIMOSAS

MIMOSAS

 

02 July | 21:00h | Teatro Principal | Free entrance until complete capacity
Q&A with Oliver Laxe

A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh trough the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain pass, refuse to continue transporting the corpse.


Spain | 2016 | 96´| Colour | DCP

Dirección/Direction: Oliver Laxe. Guión/Script: Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol. Fotografía/Cinematography: Mauro Herce. Montaxe/Editing: Cristóbal Fernández. Son/Sound: Amanda Villavieja. Intérpretes/Cast: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Saïd Aagli, Ikram Anzouli, Ahmed, El Othemani, Hamid Fardjad. Produción/Production: Felipe Lage Coro. Produtora/Production Company: Zeitun Films, La Prod, Rouge International.

Festivals:
Cannes 2016 – Critics Week Grand Prize
Cairo International Film Festival 2016 – Best Film (Golden Pyramid) and Best Actor.
Sevilla European Film Festival 2016 – Special Jury Award


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Oliver Laxe is one of the most outstanding contemporary filmmakers and a major representative of the New Galician Cinema. He started his studies in audiovisual communication in Pontevedra, and completed his training at the prestigious Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Laxe is now based in Morocco, where he developed his two first feature films Todos vós sodes capitáns (2010) and Mimosas (2016), both of them premiered and awarded at Cannes.