Whispers of a Qareen(2025)

Storyline

A young boy named Jahaan loses his father and sister in a landslide. Struggling with grief, he drifts between what's real and what's imagined. His journey is a search for a world where the people he loves might still exist.

“A boy searches for the lost in a world between.”

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Trivia

• The film's title refers to a 'Qareen', a spiritual double in Islamic tradition, tying into the story's themes of duality and loss.
• Director Maaria Sayed used real sounds from Himalayan landslides to create the film's immersive and unsettling audio landscape.
• The child actor playing Jahaan was cast after an extensive search in remote Himalayan villages for a non-professional performer.
• The production faced delays due to extreme weather, mirroring the natural disaster central to the film's plot.
• The film's color palette shifts from warm earth tones to cool blues to visually separate Jahaan's reality from his fantasies.
• It was shot on location in the same Himalayan region where the director's own family has ancestral roots.
• The script was workshopped with child psychologists to authentically portray a young boy's processing of grief.