Tehran Set Under News Today

The Night is available on digital platforms from 2 April. In The Night, a young couple check into a haunted hotel and discover they’ve brought more ghosts with them than they find on the premises. It’s a familiar set-up, though director and co-writer Kourosh Ahari doesn’t fall into the trap of rationalising every phantasm away as a manifestation of unresolved issues. Among Ahari’s earlier work is a short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic psychological/femin...