Don’t Let the Sun Go Up on Me

A quiet, haunting documentary that immerses you in a nocturnal world of fragile community and surreal beauty, leaving a lingering ache.

Directed by

Asmae El Moudir

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Overview

Blending extensive family archives with striking and surreal location work, the film retraces the life of Fatimazahra, a young woman born with a rare genetic disorder that made exposure to sunlight deadly. She lived a parallel, nocturnal existence and founded a community known as the Children of the Moon. Following her death in 2023, the group traveled to Norway’s Lofoten Islands to live beneath the polar night, seeking a world where darkness offers safety.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, warm and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, survival, identity, grief

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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