Project Detail

Leave Me Alone

Izzy first steps into the Dorrington Manor

Izzy's first encounter with the horrors of the mansion

Synopsis

Izzy is assigned to photograph an empty Victorian manor prior to its sale. What should be a routine assignment turns into a nightmare when the house’s dark colonial past unearths secrets from the time of the British Raj. As unsettling visions and spectral apparitions of a vengeful spirit consume her, Izzy’s long-buried connection to her Pakistani heritage resurfaces with terrifying force. Trapped within the manor’s decaying walls, she must unravel its sinister secrets and confront the haunting manifestation of her own ancestral past - before it consumes her completely.
Official Selection Tasveer Film Festival 2025

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 18 min 40 sec
Format: Digital
Director: Shehroze Khan
Producer: Richard Lingard
Editor: Mariana Moraes
Screenwriter: Shehroze Khan
Director of Photography: Cal Ola
Production Designer: Edoardo Parada
Sound: Emily Compton
Composer: Harpal Mudhar
Principal cast: Kiran Sonia Sawar, Anisa Butt, Mehmood Sultan, Jonathan Hansler

Genre

Horror Thriller

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

National Film And Television School

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