Cinema: "Sirat" in Ilanz

Luis travels with his twelve-year-old son deep into the mountains of southern Morocco for a rave. Luis travels with his twelve-year-old son deep into the mountains of southern Morocco for a rave. He is looking for his older daughter, who disappeared months ago at one of those sleepless parties that lasted for days. In the tangle of the world that is foreign to them, the two distribute the photo of the woman they are looking for, while their hope increasingly fades. When the rave is broken up by the local military due to political unrest, they join a small group that wants to make their way through the desert to the next party near Mauritania. But the barren wilderness is unpredictable ...

The French-Spanish filmmaker Óliver Laxe has won prestigious awards with several films at the Cannes Film Festival. "Sirāt" also caused a stir and was awarded the jury prize. With hypnotic beats, immersive sounds and visually stunning landscape shots, the film captivates the audience. All the deeper his ruthlessness gets under his skin. Because when there is nothing left to lose and your innermost being is exposed, you can grow beyond yourself. These, according to Laxe, are moments of radical authenticity. «Sirāt» is cinema as a borderline experience, a spiritual journey through pain, silence and ecstasy – raw, intense and deeply human. In the tangle of the world that is foreign to them, the two distribute the photo of the woman they are looking for, while their hope increasingly fades. When the rave is broken up by the local military due to political unrest, they join a small group that wants to make their way through the desert to the next party near Mauritania. But the barren wilderness is unpredictable ...