UPDATE, 16.10 BST 23/5/25: Neon has acquired North America rights to Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Competition title Sirât.
It is the distributor’s fifth buy from the Competition, after Alpha, It Was Just An Accident, The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value.
Original story:
Mubi has bought yet more distribution territories from the Cannes Competition, taking Italy, Turkey and India rights on Oliver Laxe’s Sirât.
The Match Factory, which Mubi owns, handles international sales on the film.
Sirât had its world premiere in Competition on Thursday, May 15. The film follows a father and son at a rave in the mountains of southern Morocco, looking for their daughter/sister.
The film is produced by Pedro Almodovar, Agustin Almodovar and Esther Garcia for their El Deseo banner, with Xavi Font and Laxe for Filmes Da Ermida, Oriol Maymo for Uri Films, Mani Mortazavi and Andrea Queralt for 4A4 Productions, and Domingo Corral for Movistar Plus+.
It is the latest Mubi acquisition this week, after it bought Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love for North America and international territories at the weekend; then select territories on Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling.
The company already held rights to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind and Oliver Hermanus’s The History Of Sound prior to the festival starting.
Cannes 2025 closes tomorrow (Saturday, May 24).
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