Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: SIRĀT Raves at the Edge of Apocalypse

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Sirāt, the film by Oliver Laxe, is one of the film phenomena of the year. A story that begins with a father and son looking for their daughter and sister in a rave of the Moroccan desert. No one has any idea. A clue, then: to the south, on the border with Mauritania, there is another summons. A group of ravers has the indications. So the raver thing works; the art of rumor, never abandon the collective body. In the desire of the reunion they dec…