Sirāt is up for two Academy Awards at the Oscars 2026: Best International Film and Best Sound. In the latter, it could be an underdog winner: the Spanish movie takes a score by French experimental musician Kangding Ray to make a love letter to the rave scene that quickly descends into a hellish cautionary tale. But against what, exactly, is up to us, according to its director.
The movie follows Luis, played by Pan's Labyrinth star Sergi López, who's joined by his young son Esteban and their small dog Pipa as he searches for his missing daughter Mar at a rave in the Moroccan desert. When the party is broken up by the local army, who demand the evacuation of all European visitors in the face of political upheaval, Luis decides to tag along with a group of nomadic ravers who are about to set off through the Sahara to another party, closer to Mauritania, in case Mar is there instead.
