'Ghazal' Selected for Short Film Section of Imagine Film Festival in the Netherlands

The short film 'Ghazal,' directed by Saman Hosseinpour, has been selected for the short film section of the 42nd Imagine Film Festival in the Netherlands.

According to Ambassador Arjan, the short film "Ghazal" written and directed by Saman Hosseinpour and produced by Fariba Arab, Saman Hosseinpour and the Iranian Youth Cinema Association of Sanandaj office, entered the 42nd Imgen International Film Festival in the Netherlands.

Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, founded in 1984, is the largest fantasy film festival in the Netherlands, which showcases the best fantasy, horror, science fiction and films in between. This event deliberately goes to works that depart from conventional narratives and forms and take imagination, the strange, the unknown and different worlds seriously. This festival will be held from October 29 to November 8, 2026 (November 7 to 17, 1405) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The summary of the story of "Ghazal" states: "In the remote mountains of Kurdistan, an elderly couple is mourning their beloved gazelle. The next night, a strange boy with hooves instead of feet appears at their door. From that moment, their world slowly falls on the border between reality, myth and legend; As if this time, the night has no end.

"Ghazal" has already entered the 26th Kaohsiung International Film Festival in Taiwan and the book and cinema section of the 43rd Tehran Short Film Festival.

Bakhtiar Panjeei, Maryam Bobani, Mahan Bahamin, Rashid Hosseinpour, Armin Pourmohammed, Ahmad Ahmadi, Pooya Sadeghi, Abdullah Shah Maleki and Ramzan Shah Maleki are the actors of this short film, and the international distribution of the film is handled by Buffer Production.

Some factors of the film "Ghazal" are: writer and director: Saman Hosseinpour, producer: Fariba Arab, Saman Hosseinpour and the Iranian Youth Cinema Association, Sanandaj office, the product of selected picture and the Iranian Youth Cinema Association, with the support of: the Iranian Youth Cinema Association, Sanandaj office, Channel Hasht, Buffer Production Film Company, Kurdistan Studies Research Institute of the University of Kurdistan, director's consultant: Hijin Kim, director of photography: Hamed Baqaian, sound engineer: Iraj Nowrozi, sound and mixing: Ottam Niupaneh, editor: Tawfiq Amani, colorist: Mehran Jabali, set and costume designer: Ayoub Sheikh Ahmadi, field special effects manager: Milad Bahramipour, computer special effects: Mohammad Ahmadi, make-up and Ghazal model designer: Ayoub Sheikh Ahmadi, production manager: Armin Pour Mohammad, music score: Mahan Bahamin.