Private Project

The Night of All Things

Joana, a seven-year-old girl, lives in a house close to a little village in Cataluña, where her grandfather runs a small antiques business. The shop is a huge warehouse, full of dark corridors and dusty corners, where objects wait to be bought, as forgotten by life. Joana spends her days by the warehouse, while waits for her mother to recover from an illness that has kept her in bed for a long time. The grandfather is her only company and she has become a silent shy girl, trying to understand the world surrounding her.

Overwhelmed by the place she lives in, Joana sees the objects in the warehouse -old tables, jars, beds, books, pictures, paintings, used shoes and clothes- as vestiges of past lives, buried by time and oblivion, and she realizes that her mother -her belongings, her feelings, her love- will soon become a memory too.

The night of all things is a story about absences and sadness, but also about our memories, and how these are all we are. A reflection on what we leave behind us: what is forgotten and what remains, what time erases and what lasts forever in the memory of those who loved us.

  • Pilar PALOMERO
    Director
  • Pilar PALOMERO
    Writer
  • Valérie DELPIERRE
    Producer
  • Pilar PALOMERO
    Producer
  • Joana LLEONART CASTELLANO
    Key Cast
  • Manuel SUBIRATS
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La Noche de Todas las Cosas
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 15, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Catalan
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • High Coast International Film Festival
    Nordingra
    Sweden
    June 15, 2017
    Best Fiction Film
  • Salón Internacional de la Luz
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    May 23, 2017
  • Laterale Film Festival
    Cosenza
    Italy
    April 26, 2017
  • 부산국제단편영화제 Busan International Short Film Festival
    Busan
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    April 25, 2017
    Asian premiere
  • Philosophical Film Festival
    Skopje
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    April 2, 2017
  • Lucca Film Festival
    Lucca
    Italy
    April 4, 2017
  • Euregion Shorts
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    March 18, 2017
  • Festival de Cine de Fuentes de Ebro
    Fuentes de Ebro
    Spain
    November 4, 2016
    Best Cinematography and Finalist for Best Short Film and Best Director
  • MECONIO, Muestra de Nuevos Cineastas
    Madrid
    Spain
    November 15, 2016
  • FIC Autor - Festival Internacional de Cine de Autor
    Guadalajara
    Mexico
    September 15, 2016
    North American Premiere
  • Ouchy Film Awards
    Lausanne
    Switzerland
    April 15, 2016
    European Premiere
    Best Director
  • Festival de Cortometrajes VisualízaMe, Audiovisual & Mujer
    Madrid
    Spain
    August 16, 2016
  • Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (cicff)
    Calcutta
    India
    January 11, 2017
  • El Día Mes Curt
    Barcelona
    Spain
    May 11, 2016
    National Premiere
  • Slow Short Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    September 15, 2017
  • London Golden Scout IFF
    London Golden Scout IFF
    United Kingdom
    September 20, 2017
  • 8th Bogotá City Children and Adolescents
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    October 4, 2017
  • Baalbeck's International Short Films Festival
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    September 20, 2017
    Best Short Film
  • Transylvania Cinema Awards
    Transylvania
    Romania
    August 31, 2017
  • Ouarzazate International Film Festival
    Ouarzazate
    Morocco
    September 30, 2017
  • THE STORY OF SPACE
    Goa
    India
    September 30, 2017
  • Daroca Prision Fest
    Daroca
    Spain
    September 29, 2017
Director Biography - Pilar PALOMERO

Born in Zaragoza (Spain). Pilar graduated in Hispanic Literature and in Cinematography and worked during several years as screenwriter and film teacher. Her short films Niño Balcón (2009) and Chan Chan (2011) have been screened at festivals such as Warsaw International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Festival de Cine de Huesca, or Puchon International Film Festival among others. In 2013 Pilar began a MFA in filmmaking at Film Factory (Sarajevo) under the leadership of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Over this period she wrote and directed the short films Noć (2015), The Night of All Things (2016) -this one produced by Inicia Films, developed under the Nisi Masa European Short Pitch and supported by the Spanish National Fund-, and her graduation film Zimsko Sunce (2017). Currently she is developing her debut film Las Niñas as writer-director in collaboration with Inicia Films.

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Director Statement

The Night of All Things borns from the personal need of expressing what you feel when you loose a beloved one. This loss is, surely, one of the most traumatic and painful experiences that we have to face as human beings. No one has ever prepared us for something like that, and when happens, we don’t know how to deal with those emotions: sadness, anguish of the absence, nostalgia… And those emotions are the heart and soul of the film.