Vino la Noche
SYNOPSIS
A group of young men enlists in rigorous military training in the Peruvian Air Force. They aspire to become ‘men of war’ and long for real combat. But the enemy is invisible and elusive. Inside the hermetic military world, they turn from eager adventurers into special operators. Amid the harshness, compassion, care, and vulnerability blossom.
With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
“Uncensored cinema is a right”, appears in the closing credits of the debut feature by Peruvian director Paolo Tizón, who for ten months accompanied a special unit of the Peruvian Air Force in the VRAEM, the so-called “cocaine valley”.
Tizón penetrates the usually inaccessible world of the army and delivers a profoundly intimate and visceral work that transcends the barrier of anonymity and dehumanisation imposed by the military institution, reflecting on masculinity between sensitivity and violence, beauty and vulnerability.
Luca D’Introno
Paolo Tizón
Paolo Tizón directs and produces his films under Cinesol. His cinema explores masculine universes in Peru and the relationship between bodies and the camera. His work, which has won awards at prestigious festivals, has been screened at MoMA, San Sebastián, Karlovy Vary, DocLisboa, Morelia, Cairo, Havana, Málaga, among others. He studied at EQZE (2023) and was a jury member at LimaDocs 2025.
Year: 2024
Country: Peru, Mexico, Spain
Length: 93 min
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Director: Paolo Tizón
Production: Diana Castro, Paolo Tizón
Editor: Martín Solá
