Sirāt

No matter how desperate circumstances may become in our lives, they can always get worse, presenting us with an exacting test of our capabilities and will to survive. And, in doing so, the experience provides us with an opportunity to look at how unimaginably resilient we can be, no matter how seemingly impossible the odds may appear stacked against us. Those are the conditions put to a worried father, Luis (Sergi López), and his young son, Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona), as they earnestly go in search of their missing daughter/sister at a rave in Morocco. Unfortunately, there’s no sign of ...

“Luis” (Sergi López) and his young son “Esteban” (Bruno Núñez Arjona) have heard that their missing daughter/sister has joined the rave community deep in the Moroccan desert. Their arrival amongst a crowd of people who just want to dance under the stars until the wee small hours leads to little, but they do alight on a group of travellers whom they decide to follow when the police arrive to shut them down. They are soon heading along dirt tracks in a convoy of three vehicles towards the Mauritanian border where the next party is due to happen and where they hope to continue their se...