The Match Factory Boards Serial Cannes Winner Oliver Laxe’s Next, Starring Sergi López (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent The Match Factory is set to handle international sales on a new film by “Fire Will Come” director Oliver Laxe, headlined by Sergi López, star of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Having begun production, shooting in Spain and then Morocco, the untitled Oliver Laxe project is a Movistar Plus+ original film produced with Pedro and Agustín Almodovar’s El Deseo, Laxe’s Galicia-based label Filmes da Ermida, Oriol Maymó’s Uri Films in Barcelona, and Paris’s 4 A 4 Productions. The latest from Laxe follows Cannes wins for all his first three features.

2010’s “You Are All Captains,” Laxe’s debut feature, walked off with a Directors’ Fortnight Fipresci Award; 2016’s “Mimosas” scooped the Critics’ Week top Grand Prize, “Fire Will Come” a 2019 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. Co-written with “Matadero” director Santiago Fillol, also a co-scribe on “Fire Will Come,” Laxe’s next turns on a man and his son who arrive at a rave lost in the middle of what are described as the arid and ghostly mountains of southern Morocco.

They are looking for Marina, the man’s daughter and boy’s sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. “Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party to be held in the desert, in the hope that Marina will be there,” the brief synopsis runs.

“Life will challenge the characters. It will put them to the test in a radical and stark way, forcing them to ask themselves the important questions, to look inside, to search for the meaning of life,” Laxe said in a written statement.