Beatrice Gibson's first full-length feature, At Night, world-premieres at the Locarno Film Festival on Saturday, 8 August, in the Filmmakers of the Present competition — a section of the 79th edition devoted to emerging and innovative directors, running 5–15 August (The Hollywood Reporter).

The film took six years to make. It is an experimental, autofictional work — a form that blurs the line between the film-maker's own life and invented narrative — centring on a poet who gives up trying for a child (The Hollywood Reporter; British Council). Dream, fiction and reality interweave across its 87 minutes, shot on 16mm film by cinematographer Ben Rivers, with editing by Liyo Gong (The Hollywood Reporter; British Council).

Gibson wrote and directed the film, which draws on two literary works: Alice Notley's book-length poem The Descent of Alette (1992) and Kathy Acker's Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream (1986) (The Hollywood Reporter). Notley, the celebrated American poet, recites one of her own poems for the film in a recording made just months before her death in 2025 (The Hollywood Reporter).

Produced by Somesuch and Norte Productions and backed by BBC Film, At Night is a 2026 United Kingdom–France co-production, presented in its original version with dialogue in English, French, Tibetan and Bambara (Screen Daily; Locarno Film Festival).

The four languages and the 16mm texture point to a film that resists easy categorisation. Gibson's background is in artists' film and video, and At Night carries that sensibility into a feature-length frame — the kind of work Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present section was designed to platform.

After its Locarno bow, At Night is also set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival's Wavelengths programme, according to Screen Daily (Screen Daily). That back-to-back festival routing — Locarno in August, Toronto in September — places the film in front of both arthouse audiences and the international buyers who attend TIFF's industry market.