The Night is a 2025 Spanish fantasy-horror film directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo, set in the seventeenth-century Basque Country, where a mountain forest at night turns old folklore and the superstitions of the age into something alive — a chilling portrait of what lurks beyond the treeline when darkness falls.
What is The Night about?
When Kattalin slips away from her farmhouse at night and heads alone into the mountains, she discovers that the old stories her elders once whispered are far more than legend. The deep forest seems to breathe around her, and she senses a presence stalking her through the dark — something drawn from centuries-old Basque folk memory and bound to the rituals and fears of a world untouched by modern reason. As night deepens, Kattalin must make sense of what she encounters — and decide how much of what she believes is real. The film lets dread accumulate through atmosphere rather than shock, tracing one woman's solitary passage through a landscape where the boundary between myth and terror has long since dissolved.
About the cast
Yune Nogueiras anchors the film as Kattalin, carrying long stretches of it with restraint and physical presence. Ane Gabarain, Elena Irureta and Iñake Irastorza play the three women she meets along the way, and Xabi «Jabato» López, Erika Olaizola, Elena Uriz and Manex Fuchs round out the cast. All of them perform under Paul Urkijo Alijo's direction in a film where darkness, silence and storytelling carry as much weight as dialogue.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora audiences, The Night offers something distinctive: a horror film rooted not in Hollywood formula but in Basque nighttime folklore — forest presences, witch-hunt fears, the moral weight carried by darkness in old rural storytelling — themes that will feel familiar to anyone raised on Persian tales of djinn and things that walk after dusk. Paul Urkijo Alijo, who previously explored Basque myth in Errementari and Irati, returns here to the same roots in his third feature, which was shot in the Basque language and had its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in 2025. Watching it far from home heightens its uncanny effect: the forest becomes a metaphor for cultural memory, for the inherited fears that travel with a people across borders and generations.
Watching The Night on Ktime
The Night is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking anywhere in the world. Subscribe and cancel anytime.