Faith is a coming of age story about a South London boy who finds faith in Islam to escape gang life. He escapes to Egypt to find his faith in life again but he must return to keep a commitment to his best friend’s, fatherless daughter and face the past. Faith isn’t your average ‘gang’ film, The script is based on the real life story of Director Ashley Belal Chin.
We arrive with New York heiress Lucy Savage fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into the surprising, diverse and degenerate world of Tangier in 1955.
Fady Elsayed was born in Paddington, London, UK in 1993. He is a British/Egyptian actor best known for the role of Mo in Sally El-Hosaini's My Brother the Devil, for which he got a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2012 London Film Festival and a Young Performer of the Year Nomination at the 2013 Critics' Circle Film Awards.