Project Detail

Leave Me Alone

Izzy first steps into the Dorrington Manor
Izzy finding out some traumatising news
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

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

National Film And Television School

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