Night Is Not Eternal

Name: Night Is Not Eternal
Director: Nanfu Wang
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-10-20
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Rosa María Payá, Nanfu Wang, Ofelia Acevedo, Sayli Navarro Alvarez, Lía Villares

Directed by Nanfu Wang

Documentary

20241h 32m6.7

Overview

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.