Pelu works as a projectionist at a municipal cinema in Córdoba, Argentina. When budget cuts cost him his job, he stays on as the night watchman and eventually moves into the building in secret, turning its darkened auditorium and back rooms into a home.
After closing time, Pelu opens the doors to others living on the margins: three informal parking attendants who need somewhere to sleep, and Vale, a former friend who uses the auditorium to record videos. Among empty seats, film reels and borrowed moments, an unlikely community begins to form. When the cinema itself faces closure, they risk losing far more than a building.
Warm, melancholic and threaded with dry humour, The Night Is Fading Away is both a tender political comedy and a love story to the cinema as a place. Here, film is not an escape from reality, but something that helps people endure it together. The cinema becomes a refuge against loneliness, economic austerity and a world in which spaces for culture and community are disappearing.
