A Jihad for Love

Name: A Jihad for Love
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 21, 2008
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 55

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First Run Features | Release Date: May 21, 2008 | Unrated

Summary: Filmed in twelve countries and nine languages, A Jihad for Love is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. Filming in secret and as aFilmed in twelve countries and nine languages, A Jihad for Love is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. 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. (First Run Features)… Expand

Director: Parvez Sharma

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 81 min

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Michael Hardy

Director Parvez Sharma, a gay Muslim himself, takes pains to show the wide range of Islam's attitudes toward homosexuality. Read full review

Noel Murray

Even though the message that people should have the right to love whomever they want is hardy groundbreaking, Parvez captures some interesting conversations about what it means to be gay and Muslim. Read full review

Chris Nashawaty

Noble in intention but crude in execution. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

We never learn why most of his subjects remain loyal to a faith that so explicitly rejects them. Read full review

Ray Bennett

Much of what is shown onscreen is atmospheric filler, while the various characters describe being made outcasts because of their sexuality while holding on to their commitment to their faith. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Predicament makes the picture kin to 2001's "Trembling Before G-d," about gay Orthodox Jews. Both docs share the same fascination and limitation. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Technically, Jihad's images and assemblage seem on par for a first-time filmmaker, though the film's message is a moving plaint. Read full review

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meganw

Apr 24, 2009

This movie is sooo amazing! i love the fact that it brings me into a world i know nothing of. and you wouldn't expect the responses that are given from this movie about homosexuality and islam and its people. ah-mazing!

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