
A Sinner in Mecca
IMDB:
5.8
Released
4/29/2015
Duration
1h 19m
Genre
Documentary
Country
France
Cast
Hamad Almutaani, Maram Alzghoul, Shady Eldanf
Overview
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.

A Sinner in Mecca
IMDB:
5.8Released
4/29/2015
Genre
Documentary
Cast
Hamad Almutaani, Maram Alzghoul, Shady Eldanf
Duration
1h 19m
Country
France
Overview
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.
Cast

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Hamad Almutaani

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Maram Alzghoul

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Shady Eldanf

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Mohamed Gaber

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Ismail Sarsor

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