Opening Night

Ghost School

+ Q&A with writer-director Seemab Gul

A haunting fable in which a child’s curiosity reveals the truth behind a village school’s silence.

  • Director

    Seemab Gul

  • With

    Nazualiya Arsalan, Samina Seher, Adnan Shah Tipu, Vajdaan Shah

  • Pakistan 2025. 88min

  • Digital

  • Urdu with English subtitles

When 10-year-old Rabia finds her village school mysteriously closed, rumours swirl of ghosts and jinn. Gul’s film is a moving fable rooted in the real crisis of Pakistan’s ‘ghost schools’ – institutions that exist only on paper. Blending magical realism with social insight, this powerful debut invites you to see injustice through a child’s fearless perspective.