A Sinner in Mecca
Directed by Parvez Sharma4 October 2015 79mDocumentary
4.886%36%5.8
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.
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A Sinner in Mecca was released on 4 October 2015.
A Sinner in Mecca was directed by Parvez Sharma.
A Sinner in Mecca has a runtime of 79m.
A Sinner in Mecca was produced by Alison Amron, Parvez Sharma.
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.
The key characters in A Sinner in Mecca are Self (Hamad Almutaani), Self (Maram Alzghoul), Self (Shady Eldanf).
A Sinner in Mecca is a Documentary film.
A Sinner in Mecca has an audience rating of 3.6 out of 10.