Zelal
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0.0Zelal is a documentary that's an invitation to delve into the world of psychiatry and "madness" in Egypt. It meets the ordinary madmen and women banished to mental institutions by Egyptian society and offers more than just a journey into their world of shadows. The hospitals end up becoming the only place patients can conceive, not because they are truly "crazy", but because they fear the outside world. The film forces viewers to put their own preconceptions and interpretations to the test, reminding us that freedom is precarious in a society that does not tolerate any differences.
Released: 2010-09-0990 minDir: Mustapha HasnaouiDocumentary
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 2010
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- Egypt
- Original language
- Arabic
- Main subject
- mental health
- Director
- Marianne Khoury
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Zelal is a 2010 documentary film on the life of patients in a psychiatric hospital in Egypt. It was directed by Marianne Khoury.
== Synopsis == Zelal is an invitation to delve into the world of psychiatry and "madness" in Egypt, in Abbasiya's mental hospital. It meets the ordinary madmen and women banished to mental institutions by Egyptian society and offers more than just a journey into their world of shadows. The hospitals end up becoming the only place patients can conceive, not because they are truly "crazy", but because they fear the outside world. The film forces viewers to put their own preconceptions and interpretations to the test, reminding us that freedom is precarious in a society that does not tolerate any differences.