Award ceremony and 'Never After Dark'

Local title
Auhinnatseremoonia ja 'Mitte kunagi pimedas'
Original title
Never After Dark
Director
Dave Boyle
Country
Year
2026

With the help of her dead sister’s spirit, a medium takes on a grotesque apparition that haunts an isolated country home.

A wandering medium, Airi (Moeka Hoshi, “Shogun”) spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi’s experience. As she digs deeper into the house’s past, a secret comes to light – and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force.

For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

NB! The HÕFF winners will be announced before the film.

Director
Dave Boyle
Screenwriter
Dave Boyle
Cast
Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku
Producer
Dave Boyle, Kento Kaku, Kosuke Tsurumi
Cinematographer
Patrick Ouziel
Production Design
Yuji Hayashida
Editing
Chieko Suzaki
Production
SIGNAL181
World sales
The Festival Agency
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