Sirât

Heaven and hell collide in the Moroccan mountains in Oliver Laxe’s wild, unpredictable, and disturbingly shocking desert rave thriller, which became the talk of the town in Cannes.

Spaniard Luis (Sergi López) travels with his son Esteban and the terrier Pipa to search for his daughter at a massive rave, teeming with crusties, freaks, and neo-hippies, in the Moroccan desert. When the authoritarian army arrives to evacuate the area due to a vague dystopian crisis, a group of hardline fanatics slips away toward the next rave, deep in the inaccessible mountains near Mauritania—with Luis in tow. What follows is a brutal, high-stakes journey. Dazzling imagery paired with a hypnotic sound design of bass, wind, and explosions poses existential questions about freedom, hope, revolt and loss. Turn up the volume.

• Camilla Larsson