Title – Sirât (2025)

Director – Oliver Laxe (Fire Will Come)

Cast – Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda, Richard ‘Bigui’ Bellamy

Plot – Concerned father Luis (Lopez) and his young son Esteban (Arjona) head to the unforgiving landscapes of North Africa in search of his missing daughter who is thought to have taken up an interest in the local rave scene.  

“How do we get out of here?”

Review by Eddie on 13/05/2026

One of 2025’s surprise worldwide hits, Sirât is an unashamedly unique and uncompressing film that finds writer/director Oliver Laxe delivering a sometimes dazzling, sometimes baffling film that won’t be for everyone, even though its ambitions and technical prowess can’t be denied.

A strange and frequently stunning mashing together of the likes of cult classic Sorcerer or Mad Max, all the while harbouring the same amount of energy and vigour you’d find in films from filmmakers such as Gaspar Noé or Paul Thomas Anderson, Sirât is a beast unto itself as we follow the exploits of Sergi López’s desperate father Luis, who ventures to the unforgiving lands of remote Northan Africa in search of his missing daughter.

Adding to Luis’s already treacherous task is the fact his missing daughter has taken up supposed residence in the rave scene, full of colourful and unhinged characters who are now living in an environment that appears to be entering into a World War 3 like scenario, as the world as we know it teeters perilously close to the edge.

The type of film that is best left to be discovered by viewers in the most blind manner they can allow themselves to be in, Sirât is a visually astounding offering and sound designed film as you’re likely to come across, evident by its two recent Oscar nominations in the Best Foreign Film and Sound categories and while its narrative arc and character development leaves much to be desired, there’s a power to Laxe’s film when all its elements come together.

Influenced by Laxe’s interest in the Islamic faith, with its title stemming from teachings around The Day of Judgement, there’s a lot more at play within Sirât than perhaps meets the eye initially and some viewers may take more from the film than others who view it more from a surface only level.

Regardless of what one may take from this often fearless exercise, there’s a clear passion and mastery of the cinematic medium from Laxe on display in a lot of ways, making Sirât a film you never can pin down as it surprises, frustrates, entrances and enraptures you in equal measure, making for a cult film in waiting over the years to come.

Final Say –

Full of technical prowess and old ideas and concepts explored in fresh and innovative ways, Sirât won’t be for everyone but there’s every chance that many a viewer will be enthralled by what Oliver Laxe has created here.

4 speakers out of 5