Laxe was born in 1982 in Paris to
Galician parents. They met at
Bataclan at a dance party for emigrants and worked as
concierges in the
16th arrondissement. He grew up in the city in a room shared with his parents and attended the Spanish government-operated school
Federico García Lorca until the age of six. Laxe's grandparents were
peasants from
Lugo, his mother is from Vilela,
Navia de Suarna, He has a brother, Felipe, who works as a film producer and often collaborates on his films. In 1988, after a picture taken by his father Jacinto, won a prize at the Paris Photography Salon, Laxe's father was hired to work selling photography materials in
Manlleu,
Catalonia. As the job was not what he expected, the family moved back to
Galicia and settled in
A Coruña. After completing his secondary education, he moved to
Pontevedra and studied for two years Advertising and Public Relations at the
University of Vigo's
Faculty of Communication, during which time he lived in the
Plaza de la Verdura and discovered arthouse cinema at the Pontevedra Film Club. He would often hang out with the
Fine Art students and stage art installations. ==Career==