Ghost Trail at the Duke Screen Society

**RESCHEDULED SCREENING**
(This event was originally planned to take place on January 31st, but had to be rescheduled due to weather.)
https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/ghost-trail-jonathan-millet-2024-2026-french-film-festival-rescheduled

(Jonathan Millet, 2024, 106 min, France / Belgium / Germany, French, Arabic, Turkish, and English with English subtitles, DCP)
-- Q&A to follow with Emerita Professor miriam cooke (AMES)
Two years after being released from Syrian jail, Hamid (Adam Bessa) is making ends meet as a construction worker in the French city of Strasbourg, where, haunted by the memory of his imprisonment, the young man searches tirelessly for the man who tortured him, determined to get his revenge—but what’s the real price of vengeance for the person seeking it? Inspired by true events, Jonathan Millet’s deeply researched thriller excavates the too-little-examined moral dilemmas and political negligence that traumatized migrants must confront amid the struggle to rebuild their lives and take control of their destinies at the margins of contemporary French society, inviting audiences to better empathize with France’s newest residents, and to better understand their place in the world—and our own.
“The quest for justice fuels a tense manhunt in the first fiction feature from writer/director Jonathan Millet, which balances cloak and dagger intrigue with an acute psychological exploration of grief, loss and exile.” – Screen International

### Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival

https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/ghost-trail-jonathan-millet-2024-2026-french-film-festival
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30135174

Let's gather 15 min before the show (which starts at 16:00) in front of the theater.

Group discussion will follow in the Rubenstein lobby or, if there is enough interest, at some downtown location nearby.