After the Ashes (2026)
Oraison
Director: Laetitia Demessence
Cast: Francis Ducharme, Martin Dubreuil, Diana León, Louise Bédard, Clara Prieur
Did you know? The choreography for the fictional "Oraison" was inspired by a real, suppressed 19th-century funerary dance from rural Portugal, where dancers would move in complete silence to avoid disturbing the spirits of the dead.
Why Watch: Hauntingly beautiful and deeply atmospheric, *After the Ashes* is a must-watch for fans of arthouse mystery and emotional dance dramas. Leonor’s obsessive quest to reconstruct her mother’s legendary performance becomes a visceral, ghostly ritual that peels back layers of trauma and buried family secrets. If you crave a film where every gesture tells a story and art itself becomes a séance, this spellbinding journey will linger long after the credits roll.
Leonor immerses herself in a modern dance troupe to decode the enigma of Oraison—a legendary performance her mother delivered three decades earlier—seeking to uncover what broke her. What she finds is a sacred rite where each movement awakens the specters of history and tears open the scars of an entire bloodline.