Set in the green and isolated mountains of Galicia, the film follows Ramón, an arsonist who, after serving his sentence, returns to his village. No one is waiting for him: the only remaining bond is with his mother, a bulwark defending the forest and the fragile harmony of their life, threatened by her son's possible return to his old ways. When a new fire breaks out, the past resurfaces and the community closes in on suspicion, blurring the line between guilt and prejudice.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
""O que arde" is simply one of the best films of 2019, a manifesto of a new organic concept of making fictional cinema wonderfully close to documentary on the one hand, and to tragedy on the other." (Ludovico Cantisani)
As the great Bong Joon-ho said, “Oliver Laxe is one of the most promising emerging directors in the world.”
