Cannes Critics’ Week Opener ‘Ghost Trail’ Pays Tribute to the Quest of Syrian War Refugees – Watch Clip (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent French director Jonathan Millet riffs on manhunt tropes in “Ghost Trail,” the psychological thriller that will be the Cannes Critics’ Week opener.
Variety has been given an exclusive first-look clip from the film, which is inspired by real-life events. “Ghost Trail” is the story of a Syrian man named Hamid who is part of a secret group pursuing fugitive leaders that perpetrated horrors in the name of the Syrian regime during the country’s civil war.
His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer. And he manages to tracks him down, as it appears from the clip. “But with his judgment clouded by pressure, doubt and revenge, can he be certain of the righteousness of his own actions?” the synopsis reads.
Millet, who previously co-directed doc “Ceuta, Douce Prison” – about five migrants who leave their lands to try their luck in Europe and end up in an open-air prison in Morocco – called his new project “the continuation of my work on migration through narrative film and documentary” in promotional materials. “I have kept my bearing; I seek to capture singular individual destinies to explore exile through the perspective of human beings,” the director said.
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