“A superbly performed cat-and-mouse drama.”—Jessica Kiang, Variety
Two years after being released from Syrian jail, Hamid (breakout star 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.
Inspired by true events, Jonathan Millet's deeply researched tense thriller excavates the too-little-examined moral dilemmas and political negligence that 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 their country's newest residents, and better understand their place in the world--and our own. A selection of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. 2024; France/Belgium/Germany; DCP, in Arabic, French, English, and Turkish with English subtitles, 106 minutes. Recommended for 16+
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ast films have included The Brutalist, Triangle of Sadness, Close, Spencer, The Worst Person in the World, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Two Popes, The Farewell, Moonlight, Shoplifters, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and Lady Bird.