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A Sinner in Mecca

04/29/2015

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1hr 19min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Hamad Almutaani
  • Maram Alzghoul
  • Shady Eldanf
  • Mohamed Gaber
  • Ismail Sarsor

    Director

  • Parvez Sharma

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Haram Films
  • ZDF
  • ARTE France Cinéma

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Germany
  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Arabic
  • Hindi
  • Urdu

Cast

Hamad Almutaani

Self

Maram Alzghoul

Self

Shady Eldanf

Self

Mohamed Gaber

Self

Ismail Sarsor

Self

Ahmed Yagoub

Self