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Story
Nicole Midori Woodford’s debut film is a sensitive ghost story about the search for traces of a family past. Ami lives in Singapore with her father. All that is left of her mother are messages recorded on cassette in Japan, where she went missing after a tsunami. After Ami gets a message from her uncle, who lost his wife in the same catastrophe, she sets out with him in search of her mother. The journey though the tsunami-ravaged Japanese landscape gives voice to their grief, while dreams and apparitions take ever clearer shape.
Director
NICOLE MIDORI WOODFORD is a Singaporean film director whose short films have been shown at various festivals. Her first feature-length offering Last Shadow at First Light was shown in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián film festival.Trailer
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Last Shadow at First Light
Fiction Feature
Japanese, Mandarin, English
Asiascope | FF2023
Singapore, Japan, Slovenia
2023
107 min
Nicole Midori Woodford
Nicole Midori Woodford
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Meredith Lee
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Potocol; Fourier Films
Studio Virc; Fire and Ice Media and Productions; Kawan Kawan Media; Nocturne Films; Purple Tree Content; Hello Group; cogitoworks
Singapore Film Commission, Slovenian Film Centre
Potocol, Jeremy Chua: jeremy@potocol.co
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Coming of AgeLonelinessFamily and RelationshipsGenreAdolescenceChildhoodMotherFemale DirectorsTravellingDeath and LossEnvironmental IssuesFather
