Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam
0.0 / 10
52 minutes
2008-01-16
Arabic
NO
Actors :
Mansour Saberi, Abdullah, Imam Daayiee, Kaltham, Alexander Lie, B. Lennart Persson, Hüseyin Ates, Geir Søli, Emre, Tigran, Kerem
Description
Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey through a world of taboos, filled with contradictory images. He explores questions regarding faith and gender in Islam with a special focus on the unusual stories of Muslim gays. Mansour is a homosexual Iranian refugee who has been living in Oslo for the past 18 years where he works as a pharmacist. Now he wants to travel back to Istanbul, where he lived for two years before he was granted asylum in Norway.
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Reviews
ZsazsaFilm
8/12/2024, 1:18:17 PM
Powerful and revealing this story is without a montage of extremities and naivety. What becomes of his gender is a personal odyssey. But full of taboos and hypocrisy that if not challenged takes away from his own meaning of life.