"Most of them were committed, lifelong ravers who had travelled to the makeshift festival from across Europe. One of the DJs who played, Sebastian Vaughan AKA 69db, was a core member of Spiral Tribe, the pioneering British free party collective of the 1990s. In film, reality is usually made to adapt to the rules of cinema, the French-born Spanish director tells me when we meet in Berlin. But we do the opposite: we adapt cinema to reality."
"When negotiating with the ravers how to best represent them in the film, he recalls, they told us that the music cannot stop for three days. And we were really pleased with this idea. Sirat promises to be one of the arthouse crossover hits of the year. After winning the Jury prize at Cannes last May, it will be released in UK cinemas in February"
Sirat stages a rave in the southern Moroccan desert featuring real, lifelong ravers and a Spiral Tribe DJ, and the production adapted to the ravers' requirement that the music not stop for three days. The narrative follows patriarch Luis, his son Esteban and their dog Pipa as they search for missing daughter Mar amid radio reports of an armed conflict and an army crackdown on the festival. Over almost two hours the search plot recedes and rave culture, with its deeper metaphysical implications, emerges as the film's primary focus.
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