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The Williams Insitute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public
Policy, presents
Tuesday,
November 17 Please RSVP to attend.
Mr. Sharma's film is the
world's first feature documentary to explore the complex
interconnections between Islam and homosexuality in a
global context. The film-maker will participate in a
panel discussion with scholars and advocates expert in
critical race theory, Film and Media Studies, and
International Law.
Parvez Sharma,
Director, A Jihad For Love
Watch the trailer: About the film: In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack from within and without, A Jihad for Love is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma has gone where the silence is loudest, filming with great risk in nations where government permission to make the film was not an option. A Jihad for Love explores the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, Parvez makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's characters show for it. In this film we meet several characters engaged in their personal Jihad’s for love. The people in this film have a lot to teach us about love. Their pursuit of love has brought them into conflicts with their countries, families, and even themselves. Such is the quandary of being both homosexual and Muslim, a combination so taboo that very little about it has been documented. A Jihad for Love’s characters each have vastly different personal takes on Islam, some observing a rigorously orthodox regimen, others leading highly secular lifestyles while remaining spiritually devout. As the camera attentively captures their stories, the film’s gay and lesbian characters emerge in all their human complexity, giving the viewer an honest rendering of their lives while complicating our assumptions about a monolithic Muslim community. Crucially, this film speaks with a Muslim voice, unlike other documentaries about sexual politics in Islam made by Western directors. In the hope of opening a dialogue that has been mostly non-existent in Islam’s recent history, and defining jihad as a “struggle” rather than a “war,” the film presents the struggle for love.
click
here to visit
A Jihad for Love website
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