European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SIRAT Director Oliver Laxe on Shock Therapy Cinema and Why Films Must Risk the Abyss

“Images Are Dead”: Oliver Laxe on Sirāt and Spirituality

Note: This interview was originally published in 2025. Sirat opens on February 6, 2026. As music thumps across the desert landscape of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains and ravers give themselves over to the endless bass, whispers of World War III echo in the margins. In Sirāt, Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, pinning down exactly what the extraneous conflict is outside the walls of the mountains would be missing the forest for the trees. The journey, or “…

European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SIRAT Director Oliver Laxe on Shock Therapy Cinema and Why Films Must Risk the Abyss

Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]