After the Ashes
Synopsis
Leonor joins a contemporary dance company to unravel the mystery of Oraison, a mythical piece performed by her mother thirty years ago, in the hope of understanding what shattered her. She discovers a ritual in which every gesture summons up the ghosts of the past and reopens the wounds of a lineage.
Festivals
Written and directed by: Laetitia Demessence
Cast: Diana León, Francis Ducharme, Louise Bédard, Martin Dubreuil
DOP: Yann-Manuel Hernandez
Editing: Charles-André Coderre & Laetitia Demessence
Sound design: Benoît Dame
Set design: Marie-Ève Crépeau
Music: Frannie Holder & Vincent Legault
Production: Les mains sales films (Yann-Manuel Hernandez)
Version
Original: French, Spanish
With English or French subtitles
Format
2:1 / Surround 5.1 / Dolby Atmos 7.1
H264, ProRes, DCP
Laetitia Demessence is a Franco-Spanish director and screenwriter who grew up in Spain, Indonesia and Chile, before emigrating to Canada to study cinema at the University of Montreal. After graduating, she explored filmmaking through various fiction short films, art and dance films. She then graduated from the Feature Film Writing program at INIS, where she developed her first feature-length fiction film, for which she received the Louise Spickler Excellence Scholarship. Laetitia is currently working on this first feature film, entitled After the Ashes. It is financed by Telefilm Canada’s Talents to Watch program and the Quebec Council for the Art.
