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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Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...
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Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activis...
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