A Sinner in Mecca

About A Sinner in Mecca

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage, a journey considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion.

Parvez Sharma's A Sinner in Mecca is a 2015 documentary film. It runs 79 minutes and was released in April 2015.

Its themes are male homosexuality and islam.

Hamad Almutaani takes the lead as Self, Maram Alzghoul as Self, Shady Eldanf as Self, and Mohamed Gaber as Self.