Stone Baby Productions
A mother carries her baby through a London park in Tea With Friends.

Farah Halime Hope

Director & screenwriter

Film and television · London

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Work

Tea With Friends poster: a woman sits in a dim bedroom, looking over her shoulder.

Short film · 2025

Tea With Friends

Written and directed by Farah Halime Hope

A fragile new mother meets two old friends for tea in a London park. Polite conversation turns into an unnerving confrontation as they begin to suspect something is wrong with her baby.

A Stone Baby Productions & Brazen film

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Selected honours

Best Horror Short Film
London Independent Film Festival
Best Emerging Filmmaker
Glowflare
Best Actress · Ruby Bentall
Best Supporting Actress · Hayat Kamille
Glowflare
Film links

imdb.com/title/tt34684988/

finalgirlsberlin.com/2026/shorts4

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About

Farah Halime Hope reviewing a handheld monitor on set, with script pages beside her.

Farah Halime Hope is a British-Palestinian director and screenwriter based in London.

She is developing two feature films, SHUSH! and The Illuminator, both of which she has written and will direct.

She wrote and directed Tea With Friends, produced through her banner Stone Baby Productions in partnership with Brazen.

Her writing credits include the audio series Corinna and the King and The Illuminator. She has also directed The Trojan Women for the stage.

Farah at Brazen
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Contact

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