{"id":3446,"date":"2025-10-28T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:45:54","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Horror<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of a global pandemic, two grieving souls find solace in one another and attempt to recover what was once lost.<\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Ahmed Zayani<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Ahmed Zayani<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Mohamed Fareed<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Ghazi Al Shehabi, Rand Al Gosaibi, Lujane Yacoub<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Bahrain<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4449\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4449\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hope-Ahmed-Zayani.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love never dies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/soff-2025\/2025-official-selections-films\/\">Return to 2025 Official Selections \u2013 Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Horror In the aftermath of a global pandemic, two grieving souls find solace in one another and attempt to recover what was once lost. Director(s): Ahmed Zayani Writer(s): Ahmed Zayani Producer(s): Mohamed Fareed Key Cast: Ghazi Al Shehabi, Rand Al Gosaibi, Lujane Yacoub Country: Bahrain Love never dies Return &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3446\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sherman-oaks-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}