FILMS

Masks of Sanity

Directors: Juditta Salem

Screenwriter: Juditta Salem

Genre: Feature Film

An independent feature, Mask of Sanity is an R-rated psychological thriller, “A girl interrupted” meets “Hannibal” except with a stronger and more scientific focus on the characters and their psychological state. Characters are depicted through forensic doctors, who tamper with human life, while accentuating the indifference of the bystanders that had the power to save lives, but chose not to.

"Masks of Sanity" addresses the diminishing conscience in our societies,especially the effect on that on a third world country as Egypt. It focuses on the four Cluster B Personality Disorders, exploring their relationships, and how they affect everything else around them. These personalities exist around the world in critical numbers, though underestimated, they are the cause of most disasters humanity faces today. When such disorders are met with oppression, poverty and ignorance, the result is horrifying.

A criminal with no conscience can easily justify their actions, when compared to the more powerful psychopaths in our governments, Health care system, Educational system and most of all, the religious cancer that plagues our souls with fear, violence and dangerous conformity.

The film is an R-rated, psychological, character-driven film, which follows the journey of a med-school dropout, forensic psychologist, NADINE SOLIMAN, who also suffers from borderline personality disorder, and struggles with her addiction

to pain. Her lover, SEIF SELIM, a psychopathic forensic pathologist, threatens every attempt for her to grow emotionally, while revealing the collateral damage of his ever more audacious crimes.