GHOST TRAIL | LES FANTÔMES

FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM | 2024 | COLOR | DCP | 105’ | FRENCH, ARABIC, ENGLISH

A former university professor, Hamid, leads a double life as a member of a secret organization trying to track down war criminals of the Syrian authoritarian regime. His latest mission brings him to Strasbourg, confronted by the man he believes to be his former torturer. Caught between justice, personal revenge and obsession, he will inevitably follow dangerous paths. With an underground, breathtaking and insidious suspense as well as a magnetic performance by star Adam Bessa, the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week is a gripping political thriller strongly echoing 1970s American cinema, a spirit which the director surgically transplants into a realistic depiction of life in exile.

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Millet
SCREENWRITERS: Jonathan Millet, Florence Rochat
DoP: Olivier Boonjing
MUSIC: Yuksek
EDITOR: Laurent Sénéchal
PRINCIPAL CAST: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, Hala Rajab, Shafiqa El Till

JONATHAN MILLET
French director, born in Paris in 1985. He studied Philosophy. He directed a series of short films, narrative films and documentaries. This is his feature film debut.

FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Ghost Trail