“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.
Away from the headline-grabbing celebrations of Hollywood titans, discovering bright new talent is, for many moviegoers, the real treat in Cannes. So is cinema’s ability to delve beneath the news cycle, probing the still-open wounds of wars that have been chased away by other, more recent conflicts.
