Sirāt (2025)

A father (Sergi López) arrives with his son at a rave party deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are looking for Mar, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months earlier at one of those endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a wild, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they pass her photo from hand to hand, again and again.

Hope fades, but they persist, following a group of ravers heading toward one final party in the desert. As they move ever deeper into the scorching, hostile wasteland, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

A transcendent, immersive cinematic experience, “Sirāt” is a road movie deep into the Moroccan desert that unfolds into an epic wandering and an inner journey of transformation.

Óliver Laxe’s new film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and received major nominations at the Golden Globes and the European Film Awards. It has been shortlisted for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film as Spain’s official submission and features prominently on year-end best-of lists by “Sight and Sound,” “New Yorker,” “Hollywood Reporter,” “Indiewire,” “Entertainment Weekly,” and “Los Angeles Times.”

Born in Paris in 1982, Óliver Laxe is the son of Galician immigrants. At the age of six, his family returned to Galicia, in northwestern Spain.

After completing his studies in Audiovisual Communication, he moved to Tangier, Morocco, where he shot the film “Todos vós sodes capitáns” (“You Are All Captains”), which earned him the FIPRESCI Prize at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.

In 2016, he received the Grand Prize of Critics’ Week at Cannes for his film “Mimosas,” shot in the Atlas Mountains. After returning to Galicia, he directed “O que arde” (“Fire Will Come”), filmed in the heart of the Os Ancares mountains, which won the Jury Prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.

Fifteen years after his first appearance at Cannes, having been screened and awarded across all sections of the festival, Óliver Laxe now competes for the first time in the Official Selection with “Sirāt,” shot in the Sahara Desert.

Selected Filmography

2019 – O que arde (Fire Will Come)

2016 – Mimosas

2010 – Todos vós sodes capitáns (You Are All Captains)