“Les Fantômes” and “Sauvages” at Cannes Film Festival
Jonathan Millet and Claude Barras' films selected!
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Jonathan Millet’s first feature film will open the Critics’ Week!
Since he came to Le Groupe Ouest in 2021 (Annual Selection), Jonathan Millet continues to accumulate successes, having already won several prestigious awards during the development phase of this film, including the Grand Prix at the Screenplay Prize (Prix du Scénario), the Gan Foundation Prize for Cinema, as well as the Audience Prize and the Visio Foundation Prize at the Premiers Plans Festival.
Entitled “Les Fantômes” (“Ghost Trail” in English), cowritten with Florence Rochat and produced by Films Grands Huits (Pauline Seigland & Lionel Massol), this film distributed by Memento investigates the path of Hamid, member of a group of Syrian citizens who left everything to track war criminals. They wander Europe in search of those responsible for the regime on the run. Against the advice of the group, Hamid follows the trail of Harfaz, his former executioner, alone in Strasbourg.
The Cannes parallel section dedicated to first and second films chose to open its Week, which will be standing from May 15 to 23, 2024, with this psychological thriller which is inspired by a true story to reinvent the codes of the spy film.
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Also selected in Cannes, SAUVAGES, directed by Claude Barras!
The film will be presented as part of the Young Audiences Sessions on Saturday, May 18. This world premiere in Cannes will be followed by a screening in Competition at the Annecy Festival!
« Sauvages » follows the journey of eleven-year-old Kéria, who lives with her father in the rural suburb of a city in the province of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. She is an urban little girl, who loves stylish haircuts and hip-hop music. Her mother died when she was very young. Kéria has no memory of it, but her father told her that she was devoured by a panther…
Claude Barras participated in the Annual Selection in 2018 alongside co-authors Nancy Huston & Morgan Navarro for the development of this animated feature, after the success of his first film, «Ma Vie de Courgette».
We send our best wishes to Jonathan and Claude, as well as to all their teams involved in these projects and we look forward to discovering the films from May 15th in Cannes!
And big congratulations to Line Langebek, script-consultant at Le Groupe Ouest and cowriter of the film “Pigen Med Nålen” by Magnus von Horn (Denmark), selected at Cannes Film Festival official selection.
