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For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he undertook the Hajj, a pilgrimage 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.
Original Release
04/29/2015
US Release
04/29/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Parvez Sharma | Himself |
Directors
Writers
Parvez Sharma, Alison Amron, Sajid Akbar
Cast
Name | Character |
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Parvez Sharma | Himself |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Andrew Herwitz | Executive Producer |
Parvez Sharma | Producer |
Sonia Swaroop | Producer |
Alison Amron | Producer |