A Sinner in Mecca
Release Date: 2015-04-29
Overview: For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage, a journey considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion. On his journey Parvez aims to look beyond 21st-century Islam’s crises of religious extremism, commercialism and sectarian battles. He brings back the story of the religion like it has never been told before, having endured the biggest jihad there is: the struggle with the self.
Rating: 5.8 / 10
Cast
Hamad Almutaani
as Self
Maram Alzghoul
as Self
Shady Eldanf
as Self
Mohamed Gaber
as Self
Ismail Sarsor
as Self
Crew
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Parvez Sharma - Director
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Alison Amron - Co-Writer
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Sajid Akbar - Co-Writer
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