Interview With "Sirāt" Filmmaker Óliver Laxe

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"Sirāt" is a drama film directed by Óliver Laxe, co-written by Santiago Fillol and Laxe. It follows Luis (Sergi López), a father in search of his missing daughter in the deserts of southern Morocco. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It's since been selected as the Spanish submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. It has also been nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Director and a British Independent Film Award for Best International Independent Film. Laxe was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is set for a limited one-week qualifying release on November 14th, before it expands wide in January 2026 from NEON. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer of the film, Sirat.
0:08.0	Oliver Lutcher.
0:09.0	We want to find my daughter.
0:15.0	I think you know what I've understood where you're getting.
0:18.0	I think.
0:20.0	Yeah. You know, I've understood where you're getting you. You know, is... It's that when it's the end up to the world.
0:48.3	It's that we're seeing when it's the end of the world. Hello, everyone, Hello, Hello,
0:55.0	Hello,
0:56.0	Hello,
0:57.0	Podcast,
0:59.0	where I am being
1:00.0	joined right now by the filmmaker behind the Spanish entry for Best International feature this year for the 90th Academy Award, Sarat.
1:22.0	Oliver Leche, everyone.
1:23.9	Oliver, thank you so much for joining us here.
1:26.2	Thank you, Matthew.
1:33.6	I'm so excited to have you on because ever since I saw this film at Cannes, I was so invigorated by it in many ways, not just because I love house music.
1:38.3	I have had my time as a raver.
1:40.3	How is techno, come on.
1:42.3	Okay, fair, fair. I don't like house. At all.
1:46.5	No, no, no. That's totally fair. That's my bad. You're 100% correct. It is techno.
1:50.8	But I've had my time where I went to a number of clubs and shows, outdoors, indoors.
1:57.3	So I know that world pretty well. Maybe not necessarily in the desert as your film
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