A Jihad for Love

United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia

2007

81 Min

Color

2.35:1

Arabic, Turkish, English, Farsi, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, French

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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EXEC Andrew Herwitz, Michael Huffington, Dave Mace, Ioannis Mookas, Eileen Opatut, Linda Saetre

DP Berke Baş, David W. Leitner, Parvez Sharma

CAST Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen

MUSIC Sussan Deyhim, Richard Horowitz

SOUND Ira Spiegel

Toronto (Real to Reel), Berlinale (Panorama), Melbourne (Forbidden Pleasures), Outfest (Documentary Centerpiece), Queer Lisboa (Documentary Competition)

Synopsis

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.

Produced by Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G-d) and Sharma, A Jihad for Love was filmed in 12 countries and 9 languages and comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, it reclaims the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to ‘an inner struggle’ or ‘to strive in the path of God’ – allowing its remarkable subjects to move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war. –First Run Features

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lolo341

20May13

Narrowly defined as "holy war" in Western, non-Islamic media, "Jihad represents a life struggle, and I call myself a jihadi with pride, and so do all the others in this film. Our struggle is one of faith and understanding." Parvez Sharma