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A Jihad for Love
Directed by
Parvez Sharma
Not Rated
2007
81m
Documentary
6.4
78%
69%
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A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
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Cast of A Jihad for Love
Abdellah Taïa
Self
Mazen
Self
Muhsin Hendricks
Self
Mufti A.K. Hoosen
Self
Parvez Sharma
Director / Writer
Javed Haider Zaidi
Writer
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
Producer
A Jihad for Love Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Covering more than half a dozen countries, Sharma stretches himself too thin, and as a result the documentary seems sketchy; he would have done well to present on-screen some of the background information in his production notes.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
Parvez Sharma's documentary, "A Jihad for Love", traces heartening, harrowing stories of Muslim gay men and lesbians.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
For all the research, courage and passion that went into it, the movie is sometimes curiously one-note.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
It is presented as an inside view of the issue, but bears the judgmental stamp of the outsider, almost to the point of cultural exploitation.
Let's Not Listen
Tricia Olszewski
With each familiar story, you wish Sharma dug a little deeper into the issue. Still, his message conveys.
Washington Post
Philip Kennicott
[Director Sharma's] focus on religion and this particular religion's all but certain hostility to same-sex love means there can be no answers to the spiritual searching of many of his characters.
culturevulture.net
Les Wright
To be called a monster and then be stoned to death is pretty much as bad as it can get.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Often fascinating and provocative, although, as a film, it feels a bit long and somewhat repetitive.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Had Sharma dug deeper, the documentary would be more compelling
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The filmmaker and his subjects are to be commended for their honesty, yet there's an overwhelming sameness to their stories that impedes the film's dramatic value.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A Jihad for Love is a courageous documentary on the plight of gays in the Muslim world, and it reveals how the devout attempt to reconcile their sexual orientation and their faith.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The film is propelled by tales of Muslims wrestling with their faith and sexual identity.
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
For various reasons, many of the subjects are interviewed with their faces blurred or hidden, understandably preserving anonymity but maintaining a distance that's unfortunate.
Boston Globe
Michael Hardy
Makes an invaluable contribution by recording the names, faces, and stories of gay men and women struggling to reconcile their religion with their sexuality.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Parvez Sharma shares the fundamentalist Muslim perspective, which will look depressingly familiar to anyone who has seen the other films.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
The accounts are powerful, but so many of the interviewees' faces are blurred to preserve their anonymity that it feels like you're watching A Jihad for Love through a shower curtain.
New York Times
Nathan Lee
A Jihad for Love is a dispatch from the outer limits of marginalization: a documentary on devout Muslims struggling with their homosexuality.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
The movie leaves open a provocative question: If you pick and choose which tenets of a religion apply to you, is it still a religion?
Slant Magazine
Kevin B. Lee
Perhaps carving enough space for the previously unheard voices of Muslim gays to speak is enough to ask of this socially groundbreaking work.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Sara Cardace
Parvez Sharma's brave documentary about homosexuality in the Muslim world presents a brutally honest, eye-opening look at gay and lesbian individuals who continue to practice their religion, despite its blunt, often violent rejection of their orientation.
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