The Match Factory has sold Oliver Laxe‘s “Sirat” to a slew of international territories following its jury prize win at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night.
The Match Factory has secured distribution for the film in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Altitude), LATAM (Cine Video y TV), BeNeLux (Cineart), Germany and Austria (Pandora Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Japan (Transformer), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Poland (New Horizons), Sweden (TriArt Film), Norway (Fidalgo), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), Former Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom), Romania (Transilvania Film), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Hungary (Cirko Film) and the Baltics (A-One Films).
Negotiations for additional territories are underway. Earlier this week, Neon acquired rights to release the film in North America, while Mubi will handle Italy, Turkey and India. BTeam Pictures will release the film in Spain on June 6 and Pyramide is distributing in France.
“Sirat” follows a father (Sergi López) and his son as they “arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco,” according to its official synopsis. “They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. 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.”
“Sirat” earned rave reviews out of Cannes, with Variety‘s Jessica Kiang calling it a “brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits” that defies “all known laws of narrative and genre.”
