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A Sinner in Mecca

(A Sinner in Mecca)
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Original Title : A Sinner in Mecca
Time : 79 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2015
Director : Parvez Sharma
Writer : Sajid Akbar, Alison Amron, Parvez Sharma
Producer : Alison Amron, Parvez Sharma
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States, Germany, France, Canada, Norway
Original Language : English
About : 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 ...See moreFor 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. See less Read more: Plot summary

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