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A Sinner in Mecca

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6.3/10 • 9

2015-04-291h 19m

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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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Parvez Sharma

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  1. Hamad Almutaani

    Hamad Almutaani

    Self

  2. Maram Alzghoul

    Maram Alzghoul

    Self

  3. Shady Eldanf

    Shady Eldanf

    Self

  4. Mohamed Gaber

    Mohamed Gaber

    Self

  5. Ismail Sarsor

    Ismail Sarsor

    Self

  6. Ahmed Yagoub

    Ahmed Yagoub

    Self

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English
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Keywords
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