NIGHT HAS COME

Vino la Noche

Night Has Come (Vino la Noche), follows a group of young Peruvian recruits — many still in their teens — who voluntarily enlist in one of Latin America’s most demanding military training programs. Determined to become “men of war,” they undertake grueling preparation to serve in the VRAEM region, an area marked by persistent violence, armed groups, and narcotics trafficking. The film traces the recruits’ transformation from hopeful young adventurers into soldiers poised for combat, capturing both the physical rigors of training and the emotional landscape that unfolds within the closed military world. In the midst of discipline, hardship, and looming conflict, moments of vulnerability, camaraderie, compassion, and care emerge, revealing the human bonds that sustain them.

THE FILMMAKER

Paolo Tizón directs and produces his own films under the Cinesol label. His cinema explores into the masculine universes of Peru and explores the possible configurations between bodies and the camera-body in these spaces.

His work has been shown at international venues and festivals such as the MoMA in New York (US), the San Sebastián International Film Festival (ES), the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (CZ), DocLisboa (PT), the Morelia International Film Festival (MX), the Cairo International Film Festival (EG), the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana (CU), the Malaga Film Festival (ES), Cinelatino Toulouse (FR), the Moscow International Film Festival (RU), the Guadalajara International Film Festival (MX), and Visions du Réel (CH), among others, where he has received multiple awards. In 2023, he studied the Creation program at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and has directed a couple of short films before his first feature film VINO LA NOCHE (2024).

He has also participated as a jury member at the LimaDocs 2025 International Documentary Festival (PE).

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Special Jury Prize; FIPRESCI Award – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
Best Direction Award – Málaga Film Festival, Spain
MoMA Doc Fortnight, United States
Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
Havana International Film Festival, Cuba
Peruvian Film Festival in Madrid, Spain
DocLisboa, Portugal
Toulouse Latin American Film Festival, France
Lima Film Festival, Peru
International Documentary Film Festival EDOC, Ecuador
Bogotá International Documentary Film Festival MIDBO, Colombia