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Sirât
''Sirât'' is a 2025 drama film co-written and directed by Óliver Laxe. Starring Sergi López and Bruno Núñez Arjona, it follows a father's search for his missing daughter in the deserts of southern Morocco. It is a co-production between Spain and France. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2025, where it won the Jury Prize. It was theatrically released by BTeam Pictures in Spain on 6 June 2025. Plot A multitude of people dances to the tune of electronic music in a rave in southern Morocco. A man and his son give flyers displaying the picture of a missing woman (their daughter and sister Mar) to the attendants to the dance party. A subgroup of ravers tell the man and the boy (Luis and Esteban) that another rave is taking place afterwards deeper into the desert and that the missing woman perhaps could be there. A group of soldiers dissolves the rave and order Europeans to be evacuated. The ravers (Stef, Jade, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
78th Cannes Film Festival
The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 2025. French actress Juliette Binoche served as jury president for the main competition. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film ''It Was Just an Accident.'' The official double poster for the festival featuring actress Anouk Aimée and actor Jean-Louis Trintignant in the movie ''A Man and a Woman'' (1966) by Claude Lelouch, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, 19th Cannes Film Festival, was designed by Hartland Villa. French actor Laurent Lafitte served as host for the opening and closing ceremonies. During the festival, two Honorary Palme d'Or were awarded: the first was awarded to Robert De Niro during the festival's opening ceremony, and the second was awarded on short notice to Denzel Washington before the world premiere of ''Highest 2 Lowest''. One day after the announcement of the ACID (Cannes), ACID official selection, Palestini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe Coro (; born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. His feature directorial debut, '' You All Are Captains'', premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize in the ''Quinzaine des Réalisateurs''. His third feature, '' Fire Will Come'', was selected for the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, earning the Jury Prize. His fourth feature, ''Sirât'', premiered in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize. Early life Laxe was born in Paris to Galician emigrants. His parents met at Bataclan at a dance party for emigrants. Laxe's maternal family comes from Vilela, Navia de Suarna, Lugo. He has a brother, Felipe, who works as a film producer and often collaborates on his films. In 1988, at the age of six, he returned with his family to Galicia. After completing his secondary education in A Coruña, he moved to Barcelona w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Almodóvar
Agustín Almodóvar Caballero (; born 25 May 1955) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and obtained a degree in chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid. He began his career in film production as a messenger in Fernando Trueba's film ''Sé infiel y no mires con quién''. In 1986, he and Pedro founded their own production company, El Deseo S.A. Through this company he has produced all of Pedro's films since 1986, and several French co-productions. He is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain. Filmography *1986: ''Matador'', director: Pedro Almodóvar. *1987: '' La ley del deseo'', director: Pedro Almodóvar. *1988: '' Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios'', director: Pedro Almodóvar. *1989: ''¡Átame!'', director: Pedro Almodóvar. *1991: '' Tacones lejanos'', director: Pedro Almodóvar. *1991: ''Terra fría'', director: Antonio Campos. *1992: '' Acción mutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergi López (actor)
Sergi López i Ayats (born 22 December 1965) is a Spanish actor mostly known for his work on '' Dirty Pretty Things'', ''Solo mía'', and ''Pan's Labyrinth''. He has developed a substantial career in both Spanish films and French films. Early life Sergi López was initiated in theater in representations of typical nativity plays called ''Els Pastorets'', in his native city. He started to study theater in Barcelona but completed his studies in France, in the school of Jacques Lecoq. He is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, French and English. Career In 1991, he auditioned for French director Manuel Poirier. López made his film debut that year in Poirier's ''La Petite amie d'Antonio'' (1992). López did eight more films with Poirier, including his first international success, ''Western'' (1997).The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize., and was nominated for an Oscar; López himself was nominated for the César Award. In 2000, he won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
The Jury Prize () is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry." History The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 68, May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied and the prize was shared by two films on 21 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2021–22, and 2025). Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold have won the most awards in this category, each winning three. Irma P. Hall is the only actress to win in this category, for her role in ''The Ladykillers (2004 film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movistar Plus+
Movistar Plus+ (formerly Movistar+) is the trade name of the subscription platform for digital television owned by , which operates in Spain. The service is distributed via optical fiber and ADSL as well as with satellites such as Astra. The platform, which was officially launched on July 8, 2015, stems from the merger of Canal+, previously responsible for the satellite TV operations, and Telefónica's Movistar TV. It is the largest subscription television provider in Spain with 3.7 million customers and 45% of market share. History Since 2013, various news regarding the possible purchase of Canal+'s Spanish assets by Telefónica were published. According to media reports, there were also many companies that expressed interest in buing the Pay-TV platform, as Al Jazeera, Vivendi, which owned Canal+ France, and Rupert Murdoch. This was critical for PRISA, owners of Canal+ Spain, as they had been looking for ways to resolve the debt the company had been accumulating since 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTeam Pictures
BTeam Pictures is a Spanish film distribution company. The company is based in Madrid. It is headed by Alex Lafuente, Ania Jones and Lara Pérez Camiña. It also has a film production division. History The company was founded in Barcelona in 2013 under the name of Betta Pictures, one among the several indie distributors launched in Spain upon the demise of Alta Films. Betta picked up '' Me and You'' for their debut film as distributors. In 2017, the company renamed to BTeam Pictures and launched the production arm BTeam Prods, that debuted with the co-production of Isaki Lacuesta's ' (2018), which won the Golden Seashell. Alex Lafuente had previously involved in production with Paula Ortiz's '' The Bride''. BTeam later co-produced '' A Thief's Daughter'' (directed by Belén Funes), '' Schoolgirls'' (directed by Pilar Palomero), ''The Volunteer'' (directed by Nely Reguera), and ''Manticore'' (directed by Carlos Vermut Carlos López del Rey (born 1980), known professionally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomadic Pastoralism
Nomadic pastoralism, also known as nomadic herding, is a form of pastoralism in which livestock are herded in order to seek for fresh pastures on which to graze. True nomads follow an irregular pattern of movement, in contrast with transhumance, where seasonal pastures are fixed. However, this distinction is often not observed and the term 'nomad' used for both—and in historical cases the regularity of movements is often unknown in any case. The herded livestock include cattle, water buffalo, yaks, llamas, sheep, goats, reindeer, horses, donkeys or camels, or mixtures of species. Nomadic pastoralism is commonly practiced in regions with little arable land, typically in the developing world, especially in the steppe lands north of the agricultural zone of Eurasia. Pastoralists often trade with sedentary agrarians, exchanging meat for grains; however, they have been known to raid. Of the estimated 30–40 million nomadic pastoralists worldwide, most are found in central A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puppetry
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – wikt:inanimate, inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performance is also known as a puppet production. The script for a puppet production is called a puppet play. Puppeteers use movements from hands and arms to control devices such as rods or strings to move the body, head, limbs, and in some cases the mouth and eyes of the puppet. The puppeteer sometimes speaks in the voice of the character of the puppet, while at other times they perform to a recorded soundtrack. There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use. They can be extremely complex or very simple in their construction. The simplest puppets are finger puppets, which are tiny puppets that fit onto a single finger, and sock puppets, which ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War III
World War III, also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely predicted that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its two predecessors, and the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, thereby surpassing all prior conflicts in scale, devastation, and loss of life. World War III was initially synonymous with the escalation of the Cold War (1947–1991) into direct conflict between the US-led Western Bloc and Soviet-led Eastern Bloc. Since the Manhattan Project's development of nuclear weapons in 1945 and their use by the United States in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, the risk of a nuclear apocalypse causing widespread destruction and the potential collapse of modern civilization or human extinction has been central in speculation and fiction about World War III. The Soviet Union's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since mountain ranges can present formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human and animal migration throughout history. At lower elevations it may be called a hill pass. A mountain pass is typically formed between two volcanic peaks or created by erosion from water or wind. Overview Mountain passes make use of a gap (landform), gap, saddle (landform), saddle, col or notch (landform), notch. A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the minimum high point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge. On a topographic map, passes can be identified by contour lines with an hourglass shape, which indicates a low spot between two higher points. In the high mountains, a difference of between the summit and the mountain is defined as a mountain pass. Passes are o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
