Night Is Not Eternal

(2024)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2024

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Nanfu Wang

Cast: Rosa María Payá, Nanfu Wang, Ofelia Acevedo, Sayli Navarro Alvarez, Lía Villares

Plot

For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daughter of the five time Nobel Peace Prize nominated activist, Oswaldo Payá, in Rosa's fight for democratic change in Cuba. Rosa's narrative is interwoven with Wang's poignant reflections on her Chinese upbringing and her observations of eroding democratic norms in the U.S., revealing unsettling similarities to the authoritarian system she left behind.