Ashes Never Rest
“The Dead Don't Sleep, When The Pain Still Breathes.”
In a community haunted by domestic strife and inter-community violence, a young Black man finds himself stalked by a sinister Apparition—an embodiment of generational trauma and suppressed identity. Battling to preserve his true sense of self against the crushing weight of societal expectations, he’s drawn into a spiraling psychological struggle where reality and nightmare blur. The film confronts the mental health toll of normalized violence and forces a reckoning with the unseen scars passed from one generation to the next.
Directed by Dashawn DeBose
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Frankie Midnight
Khalid
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Kaison McKnight
Young Khalid
Tiffany Hayes
Leila
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Jeff Martin Jr
Apparition
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Carina Morris
Marie
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Sunday Sabbath
Nana 'Ms. Rose'
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Ja'coby Clifton
Blue
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Ny'el Simmons
DJ
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Terrell Joseph
Derrell
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Michael Crosbie
Tooley
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Victoria Pousada
Nurse Vicki
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Edward Trader
Double / Extra
