***NOMINEE – Best International Feature & Best Sound – 2026 Academy Awards
***NOMINEE – Best Motion Picture (Non-English Language) – 2026 Golden Globes
***WINNER – Jury Prize & Palm Dog (Pipa the Jack Russell, Lupita the Podenco mix) – 2025 Cannes Film Festival
A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.
2025, 115 Minutes, Spain/France, In Spanish, French, and Arabic with English Subtitles, Directed by Oliver Laxe, Rated R
“Sirât is a truly staggering and major film, one that has to be seen to be believed.”
– David Jenkins, LITTLE WHITE LIES
“(An) undeniable work of sound and vision that could be life-changing for those ready to receive it.”
– David Fear, ROLLING STONE
“Pulses with apocalyptic energy, spiritual longing and jump-from-your-seat plot turns.”
– Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
“A reminder of what movies can do when they loosen the restraints of traditional narrative and remember that images are meant to evoke as much as they are to explain.”
– Brain Tallerico, ROGEREBERT.COM
“Some of the most authentically white-knuckle filmmaking in recent memory. When it comes to working the audience over, Laxe is ruthless.”
–Adam Nayman, THE RINGER
“The Wages of Fear meets The Vanishing on shrooms; startlingly original, jarringly hilarious and deeply disturbing.”
– John Bleasdale, TIME OUT
