Sirat (now streaming on Hulu) is the most unforgettable, and possibly unforgiving, film of 2025. Oliver Laxe’s gruelingly suspenseful dramatic thriller introduced the French-born Galician director’s work to his largest audience yet – previous films Mimosas and Fire Will Come earned acclaim at their Cannes Film Festival debuts, but Sirat truly broke through, earning Oscar nominations, for best sound and best international feature, that broadened its audience significantly. And what that new audience gets is an eye-opening introduction to Laxe’s intuitive and deeply symbolic filmmaking, which doesn’t shy away from serious psychic brutality.
SIRAT: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: We begin with a title card explaining that “sirat,” in Islamic texts, is a bridge between Hell and Paradise that all souls must cross – a bit of context that makes the final stretch of this film more thematically literal than it appears
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