It Would Be Night in Caracas
The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel from the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair (Festival 2014).
Description
The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel by the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair (Festival 2014). It’s 2017, and Adelaida (Natalia Reyes) returns to Caracas to bury her mother and finds a metropolis teeming with chaos. While she huddles in the apartment she shared with her mom, memories of childhood and a doomed romance as a young adult flood back in flashbacks. Leaving one day for a brief foray for supplies, she returns to the building and finds the flat forcibly occupied by armed members of the resistance. Relocating into the abandoned apartment of a neighbor, she also rescues Santiago, a former colleague who has been jailed, and they shelter together to plan next steps. With violence at their doorstep, Adelaida and Santiago must attempt to escape from a building (and a city) that holds them captive. —Rod Armstrong
Biographies
A native of Barquisimeto, Mariana Rondón studied filmmaking in France and Cuba before returning to Venezuela for her first feature At Midnight and a Half (2000) co-directed with Marité Ugás. Her other films include Postcards from Leningrad (2007), Bad Hair (Festival 2014), and Zafari (2024). She co-wrote the screenplay for Marité Ugás’s The Kid Who Lies (2011).
A native of Lima, Peru, Marité Ugás is a director, writer, and producer. She co-directed her first feature, At Midnight and a Half (2000), with Mariana Rondón, and went on to make The Kid Who Lies (2011) and Contactado (2020). She co-wrote the screenplay for Mariana Rondón’s Zafari (2024).
