Year: 2025
Director: Oliver Laxe
Starring: Sergi López, Jade Oukid, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Herderson
Running Time: 1hr 55min
Rated: R

Nominated for 98th Academy Awards for Best International Feature and Best Sound

Special post-screening Q&A with Supervising Sound Editor, Laia Casanovas

In this propulsive odyssey of sound and peril, a father searches for his daughter, who has disappeared into the roving rave scene of the Moroccan desert.

Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize winner is an odyssey of sound and peril. A devoted father, with his young son in tow, searches for his eldest daughter who has disappeared into the roving rave scene of the Moroccan desert. When they come across a community of misfit ravers, they caravan with the group across the desert to the site of the next gathering. The journey is treacherous. Every turn threatens impassable road or vertiginous cliffs and even respite in dance provides little security. Melding trance with tragedy, Laxe launches a propulsive cinematic expedition, in which his characters teeter on the edge between transcendence and oblivion.

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