2024 - 69th Edition

Ghost Trail

Les fantômes

La Red Fantasma

Jonathan Millet

France, Germany, Belgium

- 2024

Estreno nacional

French filmmaker Jonathan Millet (Ceuta, Prision by the Sea) makes his solo debut with Ghost Trail, inspired by real events. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week, tells the story of Hamid (Adam Bessa), a young Syrian who, after being released from Saydnaya military prison, takes refuge in Strasbourg. Hamid is part of a secret group that hunts down fugitive leaders of the regime. This leads him to follow the trail of a man who was once his torturer. Ghost Trail is a fast-paced genre film that explores trauma and the struggle for redemption, reflecting the social reality of a country scarred by war. All through a mise-en-scène that, far from falling back on sensationalist clichés, assumes the necessary distance and infuses tension into each sequence, resulting in a forceful political statement.

Jonathan Millet

After studying Philosophy, he spent many years filming countries that were far away or inaccessible for image databases. With his camera alone, he travelled and filmed around fifty countries (Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, all of South America, the Middle East and much of Africa). After this experience, he directed the feature-length documentary ‘Ceuta, douce prison’ (2013), selected at more than 60 international festivals, followed by ‘Tell Me About the Stars’ (2017), filmed in Antarctica, and ‘La Disparition’ (2021), shot in the Amazon. He has also directed several short films selected at numerous festivals (Clermont-Ferrand, Pantin, Palm Springs, Brest...), including ‘Et toujours nous marcherons’ (2017), selected for the César Awards, and the medium-length film ‘La Veillée’ (2017), which was released in cinemas the same year and was nominated for Short Film Talent. ‘Ghost Trail’ (2024), his first feature-length fiction film, premiered at the Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival.

O.V. in French, Arabic, English, Turkish with English and Spanish subtitles