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EXCLUSIVE: Cannes victor and Spanish Oscar hopeful Sirat has been group by Neon for a New York and LA merchandise connected Friday, February 6, followed by a nationwide rollout successful later February.
The astonishment Oscar contender has been shortlisted for 5 categories: Best International Feature (Spain), Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Music (Original Score) and Best Sound. The sound squad is nan first all-female squad ever to beryllium shortlisted.
Since it premiered astatine nan Cannes Film Festival wherever it won nan Jury Prize, nan movie has besides been nominated for 2 Golden Globes — Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Score — and 9 European Film Awards, including Best European Film, Best Director, Actor, and Screenwriter. It has besides scored 4 London Critics’ Cirlcle noms.
Sirāt is directed by Oliver Laxe and produced by Domingo Corral, Oliver Laxe, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodóvar, Augustín Almodóvar, Esther Garcia, Oriol Maymo, Mani Mortazavi and Andrea Queralt. It is written by Santiago Fillol and Laxe.
The movie had a successful one-week Academy qualifying tally successful November. In New York connected February 6th, pic will unfastened astatine Film astatine Lincoln Center and IFC Center and successful Los Angeles astatine Landmark’s Nuart Theatre and AMC Burbank 16. A nationwide merchandise will follow.
The synopsis reads: “A begetter (Sergi López) and his boy get astatine a rave heavy successful nan mountains of confederate Morocco. They are searching for Mar — girl and sister — who vanished months agone astatine 1 of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by physics euphony and a raw, unfamiliar consciousness of freedom, they manus retired her photograph again and again. Hope is fading, but they push done and travel a group of ravers heading to 1 past statement successful nan desert. As they task deeper into nan burning wilderness, nan travel forces them to face their ain limits.”
