Last Shadow at First Light
Singapore Premiere
Nicole Midori WOODFORD Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Slovenia, Indonesia 2023 106 min PG13 (Some Mature Content)
Grief and gain are intimate doubles in this family mystery that leads a Singaporean-Japanese girl to her mother’s hometown.
Ami has not seen her mother Satomi in years and is troubled by her mysterious disappearance. Now living with her father in Singapore, all she knows about Satomi is from voice clips on an inherited recorder, along with recurring visions of a spectral coast. Returning to Japan, Ami embarks on a trip with her mercurial uncle towards Satomi’s last whereabouts.
Shot mostly in Rikuzentakata, a city almost wiped out by the 2011 tsunami, the film reckons with the lingering trauma in one’s familial history. Tactile gestures feel like feats of reconstruction, and where words fail to soothe, there is promise in a brush of light. This sensitive drama pleads us to hold onto our worlds, even when all that’s left are their ruins.
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
5 Dec, Tue 7:00PM / 106 min
Golden Village x The Projector at Cineleisure, Majestic Hall
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Last Shadow at First Light
Nicole Midori WOODFORD
Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Slovenia, Indonesia
2023
Japanese, Mandarin, English
English
106 min
PG13 (Some Mature Content)
Singapore Premiere
Nicole Midori WOODFORD
Nicole Midori WOODFORD is a Singaporean filmmaker and educator. Her short films include For We Are Strangers (2015) and Waiting Room (2018), which toured festivals such as Busan and Clermont-Ferrand. In 2020, she received the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award. Last Shadow at First Light, her feature debut, premiered in competition at San Sebastián.
Masatoshi NAGASE
Mihaya SHIRATA
Peter YU
Jeremy CHUA
Shozo ICHIYAMA
Bostjan VIRC
Tomohiko SEKI
Nicole Midori WOODFORD
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