Director Oliver Laxe, photographed at the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) The smile is beatific, ...

The writer-director and sound designer break down how the desert odyssey turns rave culture, electronic music, and an unforgiving landscape into a spiritual trial.

Well, you can’t say they didn’t warn us. “Sirât,” the Oliver Laxe film that had its world premiere in the main competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, opens with titles that describe ...

It doesn't make any sense. In a climactic moment of Oliver Laxe's harrowing Spanish film "Sirât," a group of ragtag survivors find themselves in the open desert in Northern Africa, grieving for the ...

The visionary electronic artist behind one of the year's most daring and acclaimed scores reflects on shaping a desert ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

“It’s not a crowd-pleaser and it rarely leaves people indifferent,” she says. “The strategy was to go with a ‘This film will blow your mind’ approach.” Directed by French-Spanish filmmaker Olivier ...

TORONTO — The smile is beatific, blissed out, even at an ungodly hour on our Zoom call from France. A week later, when I finally meet 43-year old filmmaker Oliver Laxe in person at a private Toronto ...