Come La Notte

Within the framework of our current exhibition  CLOSE TO HOME. Remittance Spaces Between Arrival and Return , we cordially invite to watch together the film Come La Notte: 

After years of separation, three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, reunite in their older sister Lilia’s inherited villa. As the night deepens, their long-awaited reunion stirs old memories and unspoken grievances. The air is thick with the weight of what has been left unsaid over time, as the siblings navigate the delicate distance that has grown between them. In the stillness of the villa, they wrestle with an unnameable ache, their shared history unfolding in fragments, revealing the quiet yet profoundmarks of absence, longing, and fractured connection.

Liryc Dela Cruz is an artist and filmmaker from Tupi, South Cotabato in Mindanao, Philippines, and Rome, Italy. His works has been performed and shown at numerous international film festivals and contemporary art venues. At a young age, Dela Cruz received the Bamboo Camera Award from the Father of Philippine independent cinema, Kidlat Tahimik. In 2020, he was selected as one of the young emerging filmmakers of Berlinale Talents representing Italy during the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Dela Cruz's films are thematically related to his origins, history, biography and interiority, while his performances and research are focused on care, hospitality, indigenous practices, decolonial practices, post-colonial Philippines, and the transpacific trade of enslaved people. In 2023, Dela Cruz inaugurated his first major exhibition Il Mio Filippino: For Those Who Care To See in Mattatoio di Roma about the trajectory of his multi-year research on exhaustion, slavery, care, hospitality and colonial history of the Philippines. In 2024, Dela Cruz was nominated by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum as their artist for Artica Residency. This 2025, Dela Cruz has been selected by Art Explora and Cité internationale des arts to develop his new work in Paris.