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A Sinner in Mecca (2015)

Apr 29, 2015 Documentary 1h 19m
User Score
63%
9 votes
Internet Movie Database
48%
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
6800%

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.

Parvez Sharma
Director

Top Billed Cast

Hamad Almutaani
Hamad Almutaani

Self
Maram Alzghoul
Maram Alzghoul

Self
Shady Eldanf
Shady Eldanf

Self
Mohamed Gaber
Mohamed Gaber

Self
Ismail Sarsor
Ismail Sarsor

Self
Ahmed Yagoub
Ahmed Yagoub

Self

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