Movie Details
Theatrical Release:April 29th, 2015
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Haram Films, ZDF, ARTE France Cinéma
A Sinner in Mecca on the Web:Official Website
A Sinner in Mecca (2015)
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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.
DirectorParvez Sharma
