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A Sinner in Mecca

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.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 assum... Read more

Starring Parvez Sharma

Watch "A Sinner in Mecca" from streaming services Amazon, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2015. It's a documentary and faith & spirituality movie, and has a rating of 4.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is fairly low for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.

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