Sunday, February 15 • 1pm

Les fantômes (Ghost Trail)
Jonathan Millet, DCP, 108 min
France, 2024 (Arabic, French, English, Turkish)

Official Selection: Critics’ Week at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Wisconsin premiere

Justice knows no borders for Hamid, who has taken refuge in France after being detained and tortured by the Assad regime in Syria. Exiled and undercover, the mild-mannered literature professor now works as part of a secret group pursuing Assad’s enforcers, who have fled Syria and have assumed new identities in Europe. One of these men is the guard responsible for the unspeakable abuse Hamid endured. Tactfully reckoning with recent history, the filmmaker delivers a tense espionage thriller that explores the opaque relationship between justice and revenge.

Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & co-sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Cultures & MALLT

Talkback with Fahed Masalkhi (Arabic Program Coordinator)