Mubi Acquires Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Competition Entry ‘Sirât’ for Italy, Turkey and India

Mubi’s shopping spree of Cannes competition titles is continuing at pace.

The distributor, streaming platform and production company has now picked up “Sirât,” Oliver Laxe’s hugely well-received feature, marking the 9th film vying for the 2025 Palme d’Or to now join Mubi’s upcoming slate.

The Match Factory is handling international sales of the film, with Mubi to announce release plans in the near future.

“Sirât” follows a father (Sergi López) and his son who arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

Brúno Nuñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson, Tonin Janvier, Jade Oukid and Richard Bellamy also star in the film, which Variety described as a “brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits” in its review.

Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García produce under their banner El Deseo, Xavi Font and Laxe for Filmes Da Ermida, Oriol Maymó for Uri Films, Mani Mortazavi and Andrea Queralt for 4A4 Productions, and Domingo Corral for Movistar Plus+. Associate producers include Fran Araújo and Guillermo Farré for Movistar Plus+, and Holger Stern.

The acquisition of “Sirât” comes just a day after Mubi announced multi-territory deals for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” Earlier in the festival and in one of the biggest swings, it snapped up Lynne Ramsey’s “Die My Love” for a reported $24 million, followed by Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” after it earned one of Cannes’ longest standing ovations and then Julia Ducournau’s genre-hopping drama “Alpha.” Before the festival had even begun, Mubi acquired U.S. rights to “History of Sound,” while it also produced “The Mastermind” and retained several territories.