A Sinner in Mecca

Directed by Parvez Sharma

Written by Alison Amron, Sajid Akbar

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.

Cast

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Hamad Almutaani

Self

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Maram Alzghoul

Self

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Shady Eldanf

Self

Mohamed Gaber

Self

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Ismail Sarsor

Self

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Ahmed Yagoub

Self