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21-11-07, 07:37
Muslim movie at gay festival (The Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)
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For example, Indian-born Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love is a documentary about the harsh, closeted lives of gay men and lesbians in Muslim culture. Sharma analyses the Koranic texts on homo-sexuality, assessing rhier meaning and contrasting the words with the reality of being gay in a traditional Islamic culture. The film moves from the relatively tolerant world of Turkey to Egypt to document the exile of a man who was one of 52 guests arrested after attending a gay wedding on a floating disco boat. He was severely beaten and jailed for a year. When he was released he was warned that he could face another jail term and fled into exile in Paris. A Jihad for Love is politically speaking, the most controversial film of the festival. Its screening will be preceded by an address by Sandi DuBowski, who directed a previous festival hit, Trembling – Before G’d which looked at the enclosed lives of gay men in the Jewish Hasidic community.
A Jewish filmmaker, DuBowski, introducing a Muslim film on the same subject, underscores the festival’s fundamental purpose of challenging and exposing acts of prejudice and ignorance.
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Sunday Time October 28
South Africa
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For example, Indian-born Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love is a documentary about the harsh, closeted lives of gay men and lesbians in Muslim culture. Sharma analyses the Koranic texts on homo-sexuality, assessing rhier meaning and contrasting the words with the reality of being gay in a traditional Islamic culture. The film moves from the relatively tolerant world of Turkey to Egypt to document the exile of a man who was one of 52 guests arrested after attending a gay wedding on a floating disco boat. He was severely beaten and jailed for a year. When he was released he was warned that he could face another jail term and fled into exile in Paris. A Jihad for Love is politically speaking, the most controversial film of the festival. Its screening will be preceded by an address by Sandi DuBowski, who directed a previous festival hit, Trembling – Before G’d which looked at the enclosed lives of gay men in the Jewish Hasidic community.
A Jewish filmmaker, DuBowski, introducing a Muslim film on the same subject, underscores the festival’s fundamental purpose of challenging and exposing acts of prejudice and ignorance.
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Sunday Time October 28
South Africa