Premiering in Cannes' Critics' Week sidebar, Jonathan Millet's film stars Adam Bessa as a Syrian refugee tasked with tracking down his former torturer.
Revolving around a Syrian exile tracking down his former torturer in France, French director Jonathan Millet’s feature-length fiction debut is a work of visceral intensity and formidable control, pulling you into a tight grip and holding you there. The cat-and-mouse premise and brisk, nerve-jangling execution are familiar from numerous other geopolitically timely spy/manhunt tales on big and small screens.
Hamid is now part of an underground network of Syrians trailing fugitive henchmen of the Assad regime around Europe and turning them over to local authorities to be arrested and tried. His newest target, as confirmed by his handler , is Sami Hanna, aka Harfaz: the very man who administered Hamid’s brutal weekly beating, as well as that of other civilian detainees, in Sednaya Prison.
Still, Hamid feels deep in his gut that the slim, bespectacled scholar hunched over his books in the library is the monster who left him with a map of scars splayed across his back, not to mention psychological wounds that may never heal. Other members of the cell accuse him of “wishful thinking,” but Hamid is sure that the voice and even the smell of the man he’s been following belong to his torturer.
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