Sarah: The Little Ghost


After losing her mother, Sarah retreats into a world of silence.

Ignored by the adults around her and trapped inside overwhelming loneliness, the young girl finds comfort in drawing. One day, the sketches she creates of her mother begin to come alive within her imagination. Through drawings on walls, dreams beneath endless blue skies, and tender moments of affection, Sarah rebuilds the presence she has lost.

But grief is fragile.

As rain begins to fall, the sketch of her mother slowly dissolves, washing away the illusion that kept Sarah connected to the person she misses most. Left alone once again, she struggles to distinguish memory from reality.

In the shadows, a mysterious figure takes the shape of her mother and reaches out a hand. Longing overcomes fear. Sarah follows.

Blending symbolism, dream imagery, and child psychology, Sarah: The Little Ghost explores how children process loss when language is no longer enough. It is a poetic meditation on grief, abandonment, imagination, and the invisible worlds children create to survive emotional pain.

  • Shorna Abedin
    Director
  • Shorna Abedin
    Writer
  • Shorna Abedin
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 14, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Bangladesh
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Shorna Abedin

Shorna Abedin is an independent filmmaker, author, and visual artist whose work explores psychology, human emotion, loneliness, memory, and the unseen dimensions of everyday life.

Driven by a fascination with the inner worlds people carry within them, Shorna combines poetic storytelling with symbolic imagery to create emotionally resonant narratives. Her creative work often focuses on themes of grief, identity, childhood, isolation, and the complex relationship between reality and imagination.

Through film, writing, and visual art, she seeks to transform deeply personal emotions into universal human experiences that connect audiences across cultures and generations.

Sarah: The Little Ghost continues her exploration of psychological storytelling through the perspective of a grieving child navigating the fragile boundary between memory and reality.

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Director Statement

As a filmmaker, I have always been fascinated by the emotional worlds that children carry within themselves—worlds that adults often fail to see.

Sarah: The Little Ghost was born from a simple question: What happens when a child loses the person who made the world feel safe?

Children rarely express grief the way adults do. Instead, they create stories, imaginary companions, dreams, and symbols that help them survive emotions too large to understand. In this film, the ghost is not a supernatural being. It is memory. It is longing. It is the psychological echo left behind by love.

The recurring motifs of rain, sketches, shadows, crows, and animals represent the fragile boundary between reality and imagination. Sarah's journey reflects a universal human experience: our desire to hold on to those we have lost, even when we know they cannot return.

Through a visual language inspired by dreams and childhood perception, I wanted to explore grief not as an event, but as a landscape—a place where memory becomes more real than reality itself.

This film is ultimately a reflection on loss, loneliness, and the resilience of a child's imagination.