Summary
- Semperis is launching a 30-city global screening tour for Midnight in the War Room after its Black Hat USA premiere.
- European stops include Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, London, Hamburg, Paris, and Dublin.
- The documentary focuses on cyberwar, critical systems, resilience, and the people responsible for responding to major attacks.
A feature-length documentary about cyberwar and the people responsible for defending critical systems is beginning a 30-city international screening tour after premiering at Black Hat USA earlier this month.
Semperis said Midnight in the War Room will travel through Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America, with European screenings scheduled in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, London, Hamburg, Paris, and Dublin.
The film debuted on 5 August at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. It was produced by Semperis Studios and draws on more than 50 interviews and more than 100 hours of conversations with current and former security leaders, government officials, journalists, researchers, and people directly involved in major cyber incidents.
Contributors include former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, former CISA director Jen Easterly, former CIA director David Petraeus, researcher Marcus Hutchins, and former SolarWinds chief information security officer Tim Brown.
The documentary focuses on the consequences of attacks against organisations and infrastructure that underpin daily life, including healthcare, finance, power, water, and supply chains. Its subject matter places cyber incidents in the context of operational disruption, national security, and institutional resilience rather than treating them purely as technical events.
The screening tour begins in Europe in September, with Frankfurt scheduled for 10 September, Munich on 15 September, and both Zurich and London on 17 September. Further stops include Hamburg on 22 September, Paris on 20 October, and Dublin on 5 November.
Cyber resilience moves into public narrative
The tour is notable because it takes a subject normally discussed inside security conferences, government briefings, and incident-response teams into a broader documentary format. Cybersecurity has become part of public infrastructure policy and business continuity, but much of the operational reality remains largely invisible outside the organisations dealing with incidents directly.
Documentary treatment can make those dependencies easier to understand because the consequences of compromise are often physical or organisational even when the initial failure is digital. A hospital unable to access systems, a manufacturer losing production capacity, or a utility trying to recover identity infrastructure can communicate resilience problems more directly than a technical description of malware or access methods.
The project also reflects how the cybersecurity sector is increasingly trying to explain itself beyond specialist circles. Large incidents now draw scrutiny from boards, regulators, governments, insurers, investors, and customers, creating demand for accounts that connect technical failure with accountability and recovery.
That creates its own editorial challenge. Cyberwar is an inherently dramatic subject, and public discussion can easily collapse distinct categories such as criminal ransomware, state espionage, sabotage, and military cyber operations into a single narrative. The value of any documentary treatment therefore depends on whether it preserves those distinctions rather than presenting all cyber risk as one continuous conflict.
Semperis is itself a cybersecurity vendor, and the film is part of a company-led initiative, so the project should be understood in that context. The screening roadshow is sponsored by Cohesity and supported by a number of industry and professional organisations.
Even so, the decision to take the film to 30 cities shows how far cyber resilience has moved into mainstream institutional conversation. The subject now encompasses critical infrastructure, continuity planning, crisis leadership, public trust, and geopolitical risk alongside the underlying security technology.
The European leg of the tour will put those themes in front of audiences operating under an increasingly dense resilience and regulatory environment, where NIS2, DORA, national cyber rules, and growing scrutiny of critical services have made preparedness and recovery formal governance concerns as well as technical ones.
