A Sinner in Mecca (2015)
1h 19m
Running Time
April 29, 2015Release Date
A Sinner in Mecca (2015)
1h 19m
Running Time
April 29, 2015Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Maram Alzghoul
Actress
Ismail Sarsor
Actor
Parvez Sharma
Director
Alison Amron
Writer
Sajid Akbar
Composer
Hamad Almutaani
Shady Eldanf
Mohamed Gaber
Ahmed Yagoub
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A Sinner in Mecca is a 2015 documentary film from director Parvez Sharma (A Jihad for Love). The film chronicles Sharma's Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia as an openly gay Muslim. The film premiered at the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival to critical acclaim as well as negative controversies. The film opened in theaters in the US on September 4, 2015, and is a New York Times Critics' Pick.