SIRÂT
SPAIN
Producers: Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, El Deseo
Writers: Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe
Cast: Nasser Saleh, Hamza Lagdhaf, Mohamed Nadif, Loubna Azabal
Genre: Drama, Psychological, Road Movie
115 minutes: Spanish, Arabic, French (with English subtitles) – 2025
Winner – Cannes Jury Prize 2025 | Winner – Cannes Soundtrack Prize 2025 (Kangding Ray) | Official Selection – New York Film Festival 2025 | Nominee – Best Director, European Film Awards
Luis is traveling through the vast, unforgiving deserts of southern Morocco with his teenage son, Esteban. They are searching for Luis’s daughter, who vanished five months ago after attending a dance festival deep in the desert. As the two move from one rave to another, they begin hearing whispers of a semi-mythical party near the Mauritanian border—a place where reality and illusion begin to blur.
Set against a surreal and desolate landscape, and propelled by Kangding Ray’s pulsating techno score, Sirat is a sensory and emotional odyssey through the heart of grief, loss, and existential dread. As father and son descend deeper into this scorched terrain, with the shadow of a distant global conflict creeping closer, their journey becomes both a physical and spiritual reckoning—between life and death, memory and myth.
Oliver Laxe (Mimosas, Fire Will Come) delivers a bold, hallucinatory meditation on mortality and devotion, powered by a soundtrack that feels like it’s guiding the characters through purgatory itself.
“Oliver Laxe’s beguiling film is a desert-set, techno-infused meditation on death and grief.”
— The Hollywood Reporter
“Defying all known laws of narrative and genre, the Spanish director of ‘Fire Will Come’ conjures a brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits.”
— Variety
“Part adventure, part mystic-existential odyssey, it is the boldest enterprise to date from a film-maker who has a taste for grappling with the challenges of the real.”
— Screen Daily
“The shallow and seemingly infinite desert sounds provide a hollow ambience, allowing the desert to become its own character..”
— The Independent Magazine