Ashes Never Rest

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.

• Dashawn DeBoseDirector
• Dashawn DeBoseWriter

• Frankie MidnightKhalid
• Kaison McKnightYoung Khalid
• Tiffany HayesLeila
• Jeff Martin JrApparition
• Carina MorrisMarie
• Sunday SabbathNana 'Ms. Rose'
• Ja'coby CliftonBlue
• Ny'el SimmonsDJ
• Terrell JosephDerrell
• Michael CrosbieTooley
• Victoria PousadaNurse Vicki
• Edward TraderDouble / Extra