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Fire Will Come

Fire Will Come

A film by Oliver Laxe

Following Mimosas, Oliver Laxe’s third feature brings us to his ancestral home of Galicia. Here, in this remote Spanish region, where the grandeur of nature is both beautiful and terrifying, Laxe unfolds a story of the uncontrollable forces of nature on human lives.

After serving two years in prison for arson, Amador (Amador Arias), returns to his mountainside village in north-west Spain, where he resumes a serene, if mostly solitary, existence tending cabbages and injured cows with his ageing mother, Benedicta (Benedicta Sánchez). Life resumes for the two following the rhythm of nature despite the suspicious glares of the unforgiving locals —until one night a devasting fire ignites that threatens to engulf the entire region. Stunningly captured on 16mm by DP Mauro Herce, this quietly explosive drama was the winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes last year.

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"The film is just as striking as Amador's serene face. It's just beautiful filmmaking all throughout."

- Screen Anarchy

"Fire Will Come, is arguably his most fully achieved work. Laxe’s films invite us to dwell on faith and mysticism through a constant blurring of the lines between fiction and documentary, filmmaker and subject, landscape and figure, interior and exterior, and spiritual and material worlds." "

- Bong Joon Ho, Filmmaker (Parasite)

"Strikingly beautiful, meditative, elusive. "

- ScreenDaily

"Fire Will Come thrives on the power of what is unsaid, the things that go ignored until they grow into a mighty roar."

- The Playlist

"Sparks a powerful blaze!"

- Hollywood Reporter

"You know exactly what climax is coming in Oliver Laxe's rustically beautiful rural parable, but its dreamy, mesmeric power lies in the waiting."

- Variety

About the Director

Born in 1982, Oliver Laxe grew up between France, Spain and Morocco. His first two films screened at the Cannes Film Festival: You all are captains (FIPRESCI Prize, 2010 Directors’ Fortnight) and Mimosas (Grand Prize, 2016 Critics’ week). Fire Will Come, his third feature, was shot in Galicia, the land of his ancestors.

 

DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY

You All are Captains 

Mimosas 

Fire Will Come

Cast and Crew

CREW

Producers: Andrea Vázquez, Xavi Font, Andrea Queralt, Mani Mortazavi

Co-producers: Koldo Zuazua, Elise André, Donato Rotunno

Director: Olivier Laxe

Director of Photography: Mauro Herce

Editing: Cristóbal Fernandez

Sound: David Machado, Sergio da Silva, Xavier Souto, Amanda Villavieja

 

CAST

Amador Arias
Benedicta Sanchez
Inazio Abrao
Elena Fernandez
David de Poso
Alvaro de Bazal

Film Info

Year: 2019

Country: France, Luxembourg, Spain

Runtime: 85 min

Color:  Color

Language: Galician and Spanish

Format: 1: 1.85

Image: 2k

Sound: 5.1

Awards and Festivals

FESTIVALS 2019

Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection – Un Certain Regard-JURY PRIZE 

TIFF Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelengths

San Sebastian Film Festival – Perlas

NYFF New York Film Festival

London BFI

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Busan International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival

Munich International Film Festival – Competition

Thessaloniki International Film Festival – Competition

30th Stockholm International Film Festival International – Competition

Chicago International Film Festival – Official Competition-BEST SOUND DESIGN

Special screening at Garage Museum Moscow

New Holland Island Debut Film Festival, St Petersburg

New Horizons Film Festival

Jerusalem Film Festival – Competition

Melbourne Film Festival

Sarajevo International Film Festival

Helsinki Intl Film Festival Love & Anarchy

Zurich Film Festival

Eurocine

BIFF Bergen International Film Festival

Film Fest Gent

Bogota International Film Festival

Film Festival Cologne

Mumbai Film Festival

Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest

São Paulo IFF

Around the World in 14 Films

Viennale

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

Mar del Plata Film Festival – Competition-

Golden Astor for Best Film

LEFFEST – Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival – Competition

Play Dates
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New York Film FestivalNew York NY9/27/19
Chicago International Film FestivalChicagoIL10/16/19
Portland International Film FestivalPortlandOR3/6/20
MetrographNew York NY10/30/20
Acropolis Cinema Los Angeles LA11/6/20
Cinema LamontDetroitMI11/6/20
Gene Siskel Film CenterChicagoIL11/6/20
North Park TheatreBuffaloNY11/6/20
Cleveland CinemathequeClevelandOH11/6/20
Lightbox Film CenterLightbox Film CenterPA11/6/20
The Apohadion TheaterPortlandME11/6/20
Time & Space LimitedHudsonNY11/6/20
Belcourt TheatreNashvilleTN11/6/20
The Loft CinemaTucsonAZ11/6/20
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural CenterSilver SpringMD11/6/20
Strand TheatreRocklandME11/6/20
Downing Film CenterDowning Film CenterNY11/6/20
Varsity TheatreDavisCA11/6/20
Charlotte Film SocietyCharlotteNC11/6/20
Civic Theatre of AllentownAllentownPA11/6/20
Movies of Delray / Lake WorthDelray BeachFL11/6/20
Athens CinéAthensGA11/6/20
Coral Gables Art CinemaCoral GablesFL11/6/20
Oklahoma City Museum of ArtOklahoma CityOK11/20/20
Brattle TheatreCambridgeMA11/20/20
Webster Film SeriesSt. LouisMO11/27/20
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