For gay filmmaker parvez sharma, filming in saudi arabia presents two serious challenges filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. In the movie the filmmaker, an openly gay muslim man tries to find his own place within an. Sharma, who is also gay and muslim, takes viewers on his 2011 hajj, or pilgrimage, to islams most sacred sites. The author recorded an audiobook version of this book for tantor media on. A sinner in mecca official trailer 1 2015 documentary hd. The film opened in theaters in the us on september 4, 2015 and is a new. On these neverbeforefilmed streets of ancient mecca, he joins 4 million muslims, from the majority, peaceloving pilgrims fulfilling a lifelong calling, to brutal jihadists for whom violence is. For gay filmmaker parvez sharma, filming in saudi arabia presents. A gay muslims hajj of defiance audiobook by parvez sharma. Risking his life, parvez embarks on a jihad of the selffilming his experience along the way. Islam is at war with itself, and i have fought hard not to be a. Filmmaker parvez sharma embarks on the hajj, the pilgrimage to mecca, saudi arabia.
He also directed and produced the multiple awardwinning a jihad for love, which premiered at the 2007 toronto film festival and opened the prestigious panorama dokumente section of the 2008 berlin international film festival. The journey of indianborn filmmaker parvez sharma began in 2011, when he embarked on the annual pilgrimage known as hajj. The movie itself starts with a chat room conversation on a homosexual website with a saudi who just witnessed an execution of a gay man. The filmmaker documents his journey on nothing more than an iphone and two smuggled, tiny cameras. A sinner in mecca is a 2015 documentary film from director parvez sharma a jihad for love. To purchase the dvd with ppr or dsl, please contact estelle grosso or call 212 6296880.
The book that takes you everywhere the film could not is here. A sinner in mecca may also be available with public performance rights ppr and digital site licensing dsl for colleges and universities. The trailer for parvez sharmas new film, a sinner in mecca, with its pulsating music, tortured bodies, and scary news clips, depicts a sensationalism worthy of the most crass of islamophobic films. A sinner in mecca movie for a gay filmmaker, filming in saudi arabia presents two serious challenges. A sinner in mecca 2015 a sinner in mecca 2015 user. Check out our editors picks to get the lowdown on the movies and shows were. However what really appealed to me was the promise that this film seemed to make to give the viewer a look at mecca the holiest city of islam, located in saudi arabia. For gay filmmaker parvez sharma, filming in saudi arabia presents two serious challenges filming is. A sinner in mecca is a suitably messy mix of the gritty and the surreal, the wrenching and the transcendent, from the midst of the trek to islams holiest site. It is contained within the masjid al haram the sacred mosque in makkah present day mecca.
Sharmas documentaries and written works dissect the complicated intersection of faith and sexuality. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. In a sinner in mecca, a gay director ponders his sexuality and. His film a sinner in mecca has garnered worldwide media attention and was a new york times critics pick. A sinner in mecca 2015 full movie download full hd. Sharma calls the book the final product of his islam trilogy. The film premiered at the 2015 hot docs canadian international documentary festival to critical acclaim as well as negative controversies. For filmmaker parvez sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked o. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
A scene from parvez sharmas documentary a sinner in mecca, about his 2011. Whatever you want to call it, gay director parvez sharmas resolve to go back to saudi arabia in search of his muslim roots, at dangerous odds with his homosexuality, recorded in his documentary a sinner in mecca, was a boldperhaps dementeddecision. A sinner in mecca will go on cinema release in new york on friday but the story started almost four years ago. Parvez sharma risks death to illegally film his hajj pilgrimage an act made more daring by the fact that hes gay. Given the perception that the middle east is largely hostile to the lgbtq community, parvez sharmas spiritual memoir a sinner in mecca is shocking in. Three new documentaries reveal precarious, uncertain, and inscrutable queer existence in syria, israel, and. The film chronicles sharmas hajj pilgrimage to mecca, saudi arabia as an openly gay muslim.
The film, shot guerrilla style on an iphone and smuggled cameras, documents sharmas hajj pilgrimage in saudi arabia, a nation where homosexuality is illegal. Alive mind director of the excellent documentary a jihad for love, about gay muslims, parvez sharma risked his life by covertly filming his hajj pilgrimage to. Parvez sharma went on a pilgrimage to mecca and covertly filmed what he describes as the frontline of islam in order to explore what it means. The saudi arabia they dont want you to see check out bring a sinner in mecca to you. With a sinner in mecca, parvez sharma puts his soul and. A gay muslims hajj of defiance is the first book by parvez sharma, released on august 15, 2017, by publisher benbella books. From the multiple awardwinning filmmaker of the critically acclaimed a jihad for love, and the ny times. In a sinner in mecca, author, filmmaker, and 2018 guggenheim fellow parvez chronicles his pilgrimage as a very openly gay muslim to saudi arabia, where islams heart beats. Watch a sinner in mecca online watch online anytime.
And yes, a sinner in mecca, the nyt critics pick film and later very dissimilar book book with the same title, and the film a jihad for love are still changing minds globally our islam trilogy is all about truthtelling in the age of donald trump. A sinner in mecca audaciously enters a world that has been forbidden to nonmuslims for 14 centuries. A sinner in mecca unflinchingly showcases parts of the dangerous ideology that governs todays isis and how much it has in common with saudi arabias sacred, yet treacherous dogma, wahhabi islam. Watch the trailer for a sinner in mecca this weeks new fiction releases arent quite as stimulating, though theyre not without surprises. A sinner in mecca 2015 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Openly gay and a devout muslim, parvez sharma embarks on a perilous pilgrimage to mecca hoping to find an answer to this most personal question. Sharmas spiritual search is intimate and careful, and ultimately one of understanding. This movie makes mecca look like a bloody city, majority of these things are not even from there. With nothing more than his iphone, he joins 4 million fellow muslims on the pilgrimage to mecca. This is a provocative roadtrip through the heart of islam. Daily xtra caught up with gay director parvez sharma at the world premiere of his new film, a sinner in mecca, at hot docs on april 29. Watch a sinner in mecca full movie in hd visit movie 336972 for a gay filmmaker, filming in saudi arabia presents two serious cha.
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