Ghost Town

World premiere: Visions du Réel 2026 / International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Fifteen years after the 2011 tsunami, taxi drivers in the Japanese port town of Kamaishi began picking up passengers who didn’t exist. Using rigged cameras, the taxi is transformed into a moving confession booth. Over one night, residents talk - extraordinary conversations that drift between everyday mundanities and magical dreamworlds.  A driver dreams of a white horse; another swears the phone box is full of ghosts trying to get through. Some passengers recall premonitions that saved their lives, others talk of the ordinary ache of living on. The car drifts through the night, headlights sweeping empty streets where deer watch like sentinels. Back at the depot, a driver checks the horse-racing listings, while a phone box rings unanswered in the darkness.

Between silence and conversation, myth and memory, Ghost Town inhabits a liminal space between documentary and dream. It reveals a community suspended between the visible and invisible - a portrait of life lived alongside its ghosts.

A FILM BY Katharine Round | UK | 2026 | 64’