Film Fatales

Noche Noir

2026 00:12

Scripted Short Film Festivals

A cryptic message — You are being framed. Run for your life. — thrusts a woman into a Lynchian noir dreamscape, where time folds in on itself, strangers speak and move in riddles, and escape may mean losing who she is… or becoming someone else entirely.

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Noir

Synopsis

NOCHE NOIR is set in a near-future city where surveillance masquerades as safety and corporate power distorts reality, the film follows a woman who receives a mysterious midnight message that upends everything she knows. As she moves through a noir dreamscape populated by glitching architecture, cryptic strangers, and looping moments, she begins to suspect she’s not just being hunted — she’s being rewritten. Inspired by Alphaville, The Big Sleep, and Requiem for a Dream, the film explores identity, paranoia, and the cost of awakening in a world designed to erase her.

Bio

Marissa Chibás is a Cuban American writer, director, and actor who creates multi-platform work that traverse film and live audience experiences, reclaims the mythic, and celebrates immigrant stories. She is a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow for her screenplay 1972 which was an Athena Awards finalist and which received an inaugural Sundance/Gold House Artist Accelerator grant. She is a #1 Amazon new release author for her book Mythic Imagination and the Actor. Her proof of concept short, 72, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won an Excellence award in Drama at the Hispanic International Film Festival. Her film, A Cuban Documemory, won best documentary at the 2021 Cuban American International Film Festival and is streaming on Hoopla. Her short film, Finding Shelter, won best documentary short at the San Diego Latino Film Festival and streamed on DocsNow. Her narrative short, Zohra, was nominated for best comedy and best actress awards at the San Diego Latino Film Festival and streamed on Bronx Net. Her films have been presented at Anthology Film Archive, Miami Film Festival, Pasadena Film Festival, NFMLA, Toronto International Women Festival, and Fabrica de Arte in Havana, among others. Her solo show, Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, has toured the U.S., Europe, and Mexico.