(A Sinner in Mecca)

Content: 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.

Countries:

France,

Germany,

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

79 minutes

Year:

2015

Directors:

Parvez Sharma

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Production companies:

Haram Films,

ZDF,

ARTE France Cinéma

Actors:

Self

Self

Self

Self

Self

Crews:

Director

Co-Writer

Co-Writer