The Match Manufacturing unit has bought Oliver Laxe‘s “Sirat” to a slew of worldwide territories following its jury prize win at Cannes Movie Competition on Saturday evening.
The Match Manufacturing unit has secured distribution for the movie in the UK and Eire (Altitude), LATAM (Cine Video y TV), BeNeLux (Cineart), Germany and Austria (Pandora Movie), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Japan (Transformer), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Andrews Movie), Australia and New Zealand (Madman Leisure), Poland (New Horizons), Sweden (TriArt Movie), Norway (Fidalgo), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Greece (Feelgood Leisure), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), Former Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom), Romania (Transilvania Movie), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Hungary (Cirko Movie) and the Baltics (A-One Movies).
Negotiations for extra territories are underway. Earlier this week, Neon acquired rights to launch the movie in North America, whereas Mubi will deal with Italy, Turkey and India. BTeam Footage will launch the movie 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 within the mountains of southern Morocco,” in keeping with its official synopsis. “They’re trying to find Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months in the past at certainly one of these infinite, sleepless events. Surrounded by digital music and a uncooked, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photograph time and again. Hope is fading however they push via and observe a gaggle of ravers heading to at least one final occasion within the desert. As they enterprise deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their very own limits.”
“Sirat” earned rave evaluations out of Cannes, with Selection‘s Jessica Kiang calling it a “brilliantly weird, cult-ready imaginative and prescient of human psychology examined to its limits” that defies “all identified legal guidelines of narrative and style.”
