Sirât (Drama)

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Director: Oliver Laxe
Producer: Pedro Almodóvar,Oriol Maymó,Augustin Almodóvar,César Pardiñas,Domingo Corral,Xavi Font,Andrea Queralt,Oliver Laxe
Screenwriter: Santiago Fillol,Oliver Laxe
Cinematographer: Mauro Herce
Composer: Kangding Ray
Editor: Cristóbal Fernández
Production Designer: Laia Ateca
Costume Designer: Nadia Acimi
Key Cast: Stefania Gadda,Sergi López,Jade Oukid,Tonin Janvier,Joshua Liam Henderson,Brúno Nuñez,Richard Bellamy

Fresh from winning bountiful acclaim and the Jury Prize at Cannes, this rave-at-the-end-of-the-world opus is an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

Luis (Sergi López, Pan’s Labyrinth) is travelling through southern Morocco with his son, Esteban. They’re searching for his daughter, who has been missing for five months, last seen at a dance festival in the desert. As the pair travel from party to party, they hear of a semi-mythical rave near the border of Mauritania. Descending into the scorched terrain as a not-so-distant global conflict encroaches, Luis and Esteban are soon drawn into a primal landscape in which they must walk a tightrope between heaven and hell.

Produced by Pedro Almodóvar (Pain and Glory, MIFF 2019), Sirât premiered to wild acclaim at Cannes, where it shared the Jury Prize and was voted the best film at the festival in a survey of 50 attending critics. The latest uncompromising vision from Oliver Laxe (Fire Will Come, MIFF 2019), shot on 16mm and featuring a banging Kangding Ray score, plays like some disturbed lovechild of The Wages of Fear, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky. Delivered with the elemental power of myth, Sirât offers a vivid example of cinema’s power to shock, unnerve and move.

“A phenomenal and unique portrait of a group of thrill-seeking ravers entering into a spiritual abyss … Sirât is a truly staggering and major film, one that has to be seen to be believed.” – Little White Lies


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