A hypnotic thriller whose atmosphere of inexorable doom still doesn’t prepare one for its heart-stopping shocks, Sirât made a splash at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and has been rattling nerves and eliciting screams ever since.
Finally arriving in U.S theaters on Friday, Feb. 6, the critically acclaimed import—recently nominated for two Academy Awards (for Best International Feature and Best Sound) and chosen as one of our 10 best films of 2025—is a journey into a blistering and brutal heart of darkness, and a knockout whose mixture of hope and despair feels piercingly in tune with our present state of disunion.
The story of a father (Sergi López) who ventures into the Moroccan desert with son (Bruno Núñez Arjona) to search for his missing daughter at the remote raves she often attends, Sirât is a psychodrama about alienation and community, chaos and order, all of it filtered through stunningly bleak vistas of the middle of nowhere and a soundscape of enveloping, bludgeoning electronic music (courtesy of Kangding Ray).
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