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Always Night

2025 · 39 min

A hushed, claustrophobic fable that drifts between tenderness and dread, asking you to sit inside its strange, sealed-off world.

Directed by: Luis Ortega
Starring: Matías Fernández Burzaco, Ornella D'Elía, Daniel Fanego

Overview: An armed young woman and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house disconnected from the outside world. One day, a knife sharpener rings the doorbell and falls in love with the girl at first sight. The poet believes that it is death coming for him. When she becomes pregnant and her son is born, the young woman returns to her mother's house, a lady with serious mental problems.

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Directed by: Luis Ortega
Starring: Matías Fernández Burzaco, Ornella D'Elía, Daniel Fanego

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
love
death
family
Places: single country house
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	5
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Directed by: Luis Ortega
Written by: Luis Ortega
Starring: Matías Fernández Burzaco, Ornella D'Elía, Daniel Fanego, María Onetto, Oscar Guzmán, Ruth Ribero, Bruno Conti
Runtime: 39 min
Country: Argentina
Languages: Spanish

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