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The Night is Fading Away + Q&A
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Night is Fading Away, dir. Ramiro Sonzini, Ezequiel Salinas, Argentina 2025, Spanish with English subtitles, 104 min.

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Pelu is a thirty-something barely scraping by on his salary as a projectionist at a film theatre that belongs to Cordoba's city hall. After losing his job due to budget cuts, he agrees to stay on as the night watchman, and through a series of increasingly unfortunate twists, he ends up secretly living inside the cinema, surrounded by the films he watches every night. 

Growing more comfortable in his new home, Pelu begins to form a small community that inhabits the cinema after hours: a group of three naranjitas (informal homeless parking attendants) he lets sleep there, who eventually become his closest friends, and Vale, a former friend he allows to record videos for her OnlyFans channel inside the screening room. But the precarious economic conditions they live under are part of a broader crisis that threatens to shut down the cinema and jeopardise their fragile community.

Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas's The Night is Fading Away is a luminous tale of friendship, community, and the power of cinema.

The screening on the Friday 23 October will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequel Salinas.
 
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Fri, 23 Oct 2026
Cinema 1
07:00 pm
Sat, 24 Oct 2026
Cinema 1
06:15 pm
Sun, 25 Oct 2026
Cinema 2
06:00 pm
Tue, 27 Oct 2026
Cinema 2
08:40 pm
Wed, 28 Oct 2026
Cinema 1
04:15 pm
Thu, 29 Oct 2026
Cinema 2
06:40 pm
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Cinema 1
  • Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
  • We have 1 wheelchair allocated space with a seat for a companion
  • All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
  • These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
  • Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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Cinema 2
  • Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
  • All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
  • These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
  • Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
Please email access@ica.art
for the following requirements:
  • We have a removable seat to create a wheelchair allocated space, please contact to organise this prior to the date and time of the screening
  • We have unassigned seating. If you require a specific seat, please reserve this in advance
  • Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email

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