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  • A Sinner in Mecca (2015)
  • 79 min | Documentary
A Sinner in Mecca (2015)
79 min | Documentary
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 ...See moreFor 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. See less
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Director
Parvez Sharma
Writers
Sajid Akbar (co-writer) | Alison Amron (co writer) | Parvez Sharma
Cinematographers
Husain Akbar | Parvez Sharma
Editors
Sajid Akbar | Alison Amron | Parvez Sharma
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Updated Apr 29, 2015
Release date
Oct 4, 2015 (United States)
Awards
1 win & 1 nomination

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