US EditionOscars: Spain Submits ‘Sirât’ For Best International Feature Film Race
Oliver Laxe's 'Sirat' won the Cannes Jury Prize and was selected by the Spanish Film Academy from three finalists after screenings and critical acclaim.
- Spain has chosen Oliver Laxe's Sirat as its submission for the Academy Awards' Best International Film competition at the 98th ceremony.
- The Spanish Film Academy chose Sirat from a shortlist including Romería and Sorda after member votes following summer screenings.
- Sirat, starring Sergi López and Bruno Nez Arjona, follows a man and his son searching for a missing young woman at remote raves in southern Morocco.
- The film received the jury prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, secured a North American distribution deal with Neon, and was acclaimed for its intensely gripping and progressively chaotic journey through a desert landscape.
- Sirat's selection represents a major milestone for Movistar Plus+ and highlights Oliver Laxe's rising status as a Spanish auteur filmmaker.
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Sirat, the film directed by Oliver Laxe, has been chosen by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences to represent Spain in the category of the best international film at the Oscar Awards of 2026. Awarded the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Festival (ex aequo with Sound of Falling, the German candidate), tells the odyssey of a father (Sergi López) who is looking with his young son for his other daughter, lost among a group of raveros who tr…
Sirât, by Oliver Laxe, will be the Spanish representative for the Oscar race for best international film in the 98th edition of the Hollywood Awards. Voters have selected her from a tern that completed Romería, by Carla Simón, and Sorda, by Eva Libertad. The reading has been done at the Academy headquarters this Wednesday at noon by filmmaker Pablo Berger, who was a candidate for Oscar last year by Robot Dreams.
The film, about a father looking for his daughter for the raves of Morocco, won the Jury Award in Cannes and has been a box office success in Spain and France
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