Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Kourosh Ahari’s The Night made history as the first U.S.-produced film to receive a license receive a theatrical release in Iran.
Now, IFC Midnight has acquired the North American rights to the psychological thriller which will be released January 2021.The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini (A Separation, Cannes 2016 Best Actor winner for The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here and Now, Stitchers) as an Iranian couple who find themselves locked inside an old hotel with their one-year-old daughter.
While attempting to make the best of this creepy hotel, an outside force pushes them to share the secrets they’ve hidden from each other.
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