After it was shown in the UAE, the movie "Farah" presents a different vision of mental illness

The film "Farah", starring the star Stephanie Atallah, began showing in the UAE, in the presence of its heroes and makers, after it won several awards in various film festivals, including a special award on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the "Chelsea Film Festival" in the United States of America, and at the "Alexandria Film Festival". For the Mediterranean Countries”, he won the Best First Work Award, as well as the Mahmoud Abdel Aziz Award for Best Artistic Direction by Musa Baydoun and Nizar Nassar, so that the number of awards that the work received in his career became four awards after winning the award for Best Narrative Film by Audience Choice within the activities of the “Festival The Lebanese Film” in Canada.

The previous awards are an important indicator confirming that we are either a film that presents a different and thorny issue, and it includes the representation of creative directorial cadres, as the events of the tape start when the medical student Lina, whose role is played by Stephanie Atallah, begins suffering from severe recurring nightmares. So her life begins to fall apart, and then she is forced to return to her homeland at the request of her father, Majdi Mashmoushi. She gets a prescription for the controversial antidepressant Zappa, known in its illegal form as Joy, to help her recover. And while Lina's nightmares take a bad turn, the link with her mother, Farah, becomes clear, so she decides to give up taking sedatives. She embarks on a journey to uncover a network of family secrets that will lead her to the ultimate truth and soothe her psychological pain.

The image, directed by Kenton Oxley and Hassiba Farha, was a creative element in the film, as it was able to convey the number of turbulent feelings that Farah feels, while giving a high dose of anxiety and excitement, as well as dark colors that give a feeling of sadness and depression, which radically transform into colors of hope and radiance as soon as Heal Farah.

"Farah", the name of the movie, which is supposed to mean joy and happiness, was far from this meaning, as "Stephanie" very brilliantly embodied the feelings of brokenness and heartbreak, due to the illness she suffers from, but the movie actually ends with "joy", and when entering into its details that Written by Hassiba Farha, we find that it discusses separate issues of psychological breakdowns and deep inner feelings in man that are difficult to express, in addition to the main theme of the film.

This dose of psychological feelings makes the viewer sympathize throughout the film, and makes him dive into the depths and absences of the soul with its various feelings. The film also discusses the relationships between parents and children, and another line about the corruption of pharmaceutical companies. It also sends an important message, that the patient is the one who took the hand of herself to heal.

Stephanie used all her tools to highlight this dose of difficult feelings, from her body movements to her eye looks, to her way of speaking, to her screams and nervous attacks, as well as to the features of her face that were marked by worry and sadness.

Immediately after the film was released, critics' praises began again, praising this different issue, and wishing the film to spread more in the Arab world, and to produce important films like it.