New Hampshire Film Festival 2025 Official Selection
PROGRAMMER’S PICK! “The sound will feel incredible. The tension will feel gut-wrenching.”
A father and son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco, searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago. 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.
Not many movies can trigger your flight instinct while rooting you to your seat. -Variety
It’s a reminder of what movies can do when they loosen the restraints of traditional narrative and remember that images are meant to evoke as much as they are to explain.-Rogerebert.com
There’s a stretch in the middle of the movie that constitutes some of the most authentically white-knuckle filmmaking in recent memory. When it comes to working the audience over, Laxe is ruthless. -The Ringer
Laxe’s film pulses with apocalyptic energy, spiritual longing and jump-from-your-seat plot turns. -Toronto Star
For all its perils and cruelties, “Sirāt” doesn’t drain you or numb you into submission. I left it unsteady but invigorated, and grateful anew for the ground beneath my feet. -The New Yorker
It’s the kind of film that Cannes attendees from far and wide come to the festival for: sui generis and evading any classification, emanating from a wholly personal vision of cinema while not resisting galvanizing, and sometimes crowd-pleasing, pleasures. -IndieWire
R, 114min
