A sinner in Mecca = Āthim fi Makkah / a Haram Films presentation ; in association with ARTE and ZDF ; produced by Parvez Sharma ; editor & co-producer, Alison Amron ; directed by Parvez Sharma.
A sinner in Mecca = آثم في مكة a Haram Films presentation ; in association with ARTE and ZDF ; produced by Parvez Sharma ; editor & co-producer, Alison Amron ; directed by Parvez Sharma.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sharma, Parvez, film director, film producer, director of photography.

Amron, Alison, editor of moving image work, film producer.

Akbar, Husain, director of photography.

Akbar, Sajid, composer (expression).

Manning, M. E., composer (expression).

Haram Films, production company.

Association relative à la télévision européenne, production company.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, production company.

Kino Lorber Edu (Firm), Distributor.

Language:

Arabic

English

Hindi

Multiple languages

Urdu

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Islam.

Homosexuality.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Muslim gay people--Saudi Arabia.

Muslim gay people.

Gay men--Saudi Arabia.

Gay men.

Islam--Saudi Arabia.

Islam.

Human rights--Saudi Arabia.

Human rights.

Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Genre:

documentary film.

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (79 min., 15 sec.) sound, color

Other Title:

Āthim fi Makkah

آثم في مكة

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Haram Films, 2015.

Language Note:

In English,Arabic, Hindu and Urdo with English subtitles for non-English dialogue; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

"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."-- From IMDB.

Credits:

Cinematography, Parvez Sharma and Husain Akbar ; music, Sajid Akbar and M.E. Manning.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.

Online resource; title from title frame (viewed September 16, 2025).

Contains:

[related title/collection]

OCLC:

1536367721

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.