Director: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Two siblings share almost everything, including a favorite online game, until one of them falls for a stranger who pulls him into a world far more dangerous than anything on screen.
What is Eat the Night about?
Eat the Night centers on Pablo, a young drug dealer in provincial France, and his sister Appoline, who find comfort from an unstable home life in an online game called Darknoon. Their shared hours in the game are one of the few places they feel safe together. That balance shifts when Pablo meets Night, a woman he becomes infatuated with in real life, and starts drifting away from his sister just as the game they built together nears its end. While Appoline pushes to finish what they started inside Darknoon, Pablo's relationship with Night pulls him into a volatile gang conflict with consequences that reach far beyond the virtual world. The film moves between the tactile, grounded texture of small-town crime and the glowing, stylized space of the video game, using that contrast to track how close the siblings actually are as their paths pull apart. Directors Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel treat both worlds with equal seriousness rather than framing the game as an escape from real stakes.
Cast & crew
Théo Cholbi plays Pablo with a restlessness that carries the film's tension between loyalty and self-destruction, while Lila Gueneau gives Appoline a quieter, more watchful presence as the sister trying to hold their bond together. Erwan Kepoa Falé appears as Night, the figure who reshapes Pablo's priorities, with Mathieu Perotto, Eddy Suiveng, Kevin Bago, Xavier Maly, and Thierry Hancisse filling out the surrounding circle of friends, rivals, and family.
Context & significance
Released in 2024, Eat the Night is a French drama-thriller that folds crime-film tension into a story about siblings and the digital spaces they build together. Its dual structure, alternating between the grit of the streets and the bright interior of an online game, places it alongside a wave of recent films exploring how younger generations process real danger through virtual ones. At 106 minutes, it gives both threads room to develop before they collide.
Where & how to watch
Eat the Night streams on K-Time with a free account login, available with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles so viewers can choose the format that suits them. The page itself is free to read without an account, part of a Farsi-first experience built specifically for the Iranian diaspora audience.