Mubi Nabs Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Pic ‘Sirat’ For Multiple Territories

Mubi has picked up yet another Cannes title after taking Oliver Laxe’s Sirat for Italy, Turkey and India.

The deal with sales outfit The Match Factory will see the French-born Spanish director’s fourth feature, and his first in Cannes competition, go to the arthouse film streamer. In a related sale, Neon acquired Sirat for North America, and will release the pic later this year in theaters.

Sirat centers on a father and son joining a group of itinerant ravers in the deserts of Morocco in search for one last party. The Hollywood Reporter’s review called it a “techno-infused meditation on death and grief.”

A synopsis from the film’s producers explains: “A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. 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 stars López, Brúno Nuñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson, Tonin Janvier, Jade Oukid and Richard Bellamy. The producer credits are shared by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, Xavi Font, Laxe, Oriol Maymó, Mani Mortazavi, Andrea Queralt and Domingo Corral.

Also in Cannes, Mubi has acquired Jafar Panahi’s  It Was Just an Accident for Latin America, U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Turkey and India, German director Mascha Schilinski’s second feature, Sound of Falling (In Die Sonne Schauen), for North America, UK, Ireland, India, and Turkey.

And Mubi acquired rights in select markets to The Secret Agent, from writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s latest feature film, and the Jennifer Lawrence-Robert Pattinson starrer Die, My Love for $24 million.

In informal coordination with Mubi at Cannes this year, Neon has picked up The Secret Agent from Kleber Mendonça Filho, and It Was Just An Accident from Jafar Panahi, while also debuting Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.