What would you do if you lost someone in a place where nothing feels real?
Sirat pulls you into a hypnotic journey through the Moroccan desert, where a father searches for his missing daughter in a world of illegal raves, endless roads, and shifting realities. What begins as a search becomes an intense, sensory experience with tension that slowly gets under your skin.
Genre: drama, adventure, music
Language: multilingual, subtitles: English
Length: 1 hr 54 mins (2025)
A mesmerizing thriller by Spanish director Oliver Laxe about a father searching for his missing daughter at a rave in Morocco. No one there seems to know her, but he refuses to give up and joins a group of partygoers who spend days driving straight through the desert in two massive RVs, on their way to the next rave. What follows is an ominous journey through a desolate landscape.
Think Mad Max meets Spoorloos, with a pulsating techno soundtrack that makes the theater shake to its foundations.
A brutal reminder that the journey can be more important than the destination, Sirat is an unforgettable exercise in tension that wallops its audience like a deafening blast of bass to the face.
Awards
Sirat won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Reviews
“A harrowing, exhilarating dance of death.” The New Yorker
“A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal Moroccan desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.” Sight and Sound
“There’s an existential dread that creeps into your bones while watching ‘Sirat’.” RogerEbert
Ticket information
This film will be shown at Filmhuis De Zwarte Doos.
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The screening of the film begin promptly at 19:30 (with no pre-film advertisements), and the cinema hall will open at 19:10. We kindly request that you arrive at the ticket counter at least 10 minutes before the start of the film to ensure a smooth and timely experience for all.
The Studium Generale film program is created in collaboration with the Student Film Committee and Natlab.