Where to watch Zelal (2010) in United Kingdom

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This documentary explores mental health and societal attitudes toward psychiatric patients in Egypt. The film enters mental institutions to examine the lives of people deemed mentally unwell by their communities. Through these encounters, it questions whether patients are truly afflicted or simply unable to cope with a society that rejects anyone who deviates from the norm. The institutions become paradoxical spaces—simultaneously prisons and sanctuaries—where patients confront their fears of the outside world.