Sirado It is a dramatic epiphany from 2025 co-written and directed by the Galician Oliver Laxe (Paris, 1982), which will represent Spain at the 2026 Oscars. It is a film starring Sergi López and Bruno Núñez that, as a plot, exposes the search for a missing daughter in the deserts of southern Morocco by a father and his brother. The film premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival 2025, where won the Jury Prize (ex aequo with the German Sound of falling). Beyond being a film, it is the proposal of a journey that zigzags through personal and collective crises, through the precipices of the loss of values in today's society and that makes you enter, whether you want to or not, into the wound of life or, what would be the same: makes you jump into the abyss of fragility.

Three Catalan productions have been shortlisted by the Spanish Film Academy to represent Spain in the race for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film: Pilgrimage of Carla Simón, Sirado ofOliver Laxe and Deaf Eva Libertad. The reading of the nominated films was conducted by two Spanish academics who are also members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: actress Emma Suárez and actor Juan Diego Botto. They were accompanied by the president of the Spanish Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, and notary Eva Fernández Medina. Spain's representative at the last edition of the Oscars. was Second prize, which ultimately failed to achieve a nomination from the Hollywood Academy.

The day after winning the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe (Paris, 1982) returned to his chosen land, the Ancares mountain range, to project Sirado in Navia de Suarna, a small town in Lugo with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. A gesture that explains much about this Galician filmmaker, forged between Galicia, Barcelona, and Morocco, who speaks throughout the interview in the Catalan he learned while studying at Pompeu Fabra University. Sirado, which opens this Friday, is one of the cinematic sensations of the season.

Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), the protagonist of Desert Centaurs, forged the mold for an entire archetype of anti-hero: that of the man who enters Comanche territory to save an innocent woman and ends up confronting the darkest part of his masculinity. John Ford's character resonates with Luis, the protagonist of Sirado, a father willing to go deep into the Moroccan desert to find his daughter, lost somewhere radishThe character played by Sergi López displays the same obsessive nature but with a more open mentality than Wayne, and it doesn't take long for him to follow a troupe who works as radish in radish. But the fourth feature film by the Galician Oliver Laxe It does connect with Ford's film when it comes to turning around the link of conquest between man and foreign territory. western classic.

To assess the importance of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize won by Oliver Laxe's film Sirado (ex aequo with the German Sound of falling) you can go to the archives: no production with a Catalan majority—and this one is 60% of the time—has managed to win an award in the official competition at Cannes in 78 editions of the festival. It's a historic milestone. But you can also look at another fact: shortly after the announcement of the award for Sirado, the magazine Screen announced that Laxe's film had been sold to more than twenty countries, including all of Latin America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Türkiye, and the United States.

Catalan production Sirado, directed by Galician Oliver Laxe, has made history at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won one of the most important awards in the list, the Jury Prize, ex aequo with Sound of falling, by German director Mascha Schilinski. Cannes is a talisman for Laxe, who has presented all four of his films at the festival, always in different sections and always winning awards. Laxe's film, a road movie across the Sahara in which Sergi López is a father who searches for radish in radish His missing daughter, is a work that combines the ability of cinema to surprise and shock the viewer and a deeper and more reflective spiritual dimension.