"Just as "Sirāt" is a twisty thriller that takes you unexpected places on its tragic journey into the dystopian desert unknown, the heady filmmaker behind it, Oliver Laxe, is not your average interview. His fourth European feature, "Sirāt" is his breakout: It wowed critics at Cannes, shared the Jury prize, and won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for Best Composer for Kangding Ray."
"Neon picked up "Sirāt" as one of the company's five international features vying for a slot in the final Oscar five. I'll wager the movie will wow the stateside arthouse box office as it has France and Spain and four other countries (worldwide gross: $9 million). Audiences have never seen anything like it. (IndieWire's critics poll voted "Sirāt" the best film in Cannes.)"
"For context, the movie starts at a rave in North Africa: Huge speakers amplify the booming beat against looming cliffs as ravers dance in delirious abandon. Winding through the crowd is a Spanish father (Sergi López), his son, and his dog. They are doggedly searching for their missing daughter/sister, who has left home to follow rave culture. As the military arrives and shuts down the rave and directs traffic away, the family jumps into their car to follow a caravan into the mountains."
Sirāt unfolds as a twisty thriller set in a dystopian North African desert where a rave becomes the starting point of a family's search for a missing daughter. A Spanish father, his son, and their dog navigate shut-down raves, military roadblocks, and a caravan into increasingly remote mountains. They join a nomadic commune of ravers while a distant war rages, forcing the group to band together and survive mounting obstructions. The film won the Cannes Jury Prize and the Cannes Soundtrack Award for Best Composer, grossed about $9 million worldwide, and secured Neon distribution as one of its international Oscar contenders.
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