A Jihad for Love
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 21, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Parev Sharma | |
| Composition by | Richard Horowitz & Sussan Deyhim | |
| Produced by | Sandi Simcha DuBowski & Parev Sharma | |
| Director of Photography: | Parev Sharma & Berke Bas |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 6/10 --
Parvez Sharma's documentary, "A Jihad for Love", traces heartening, harrowing stories of Muslim gay men and lesbians.
PopMatters
Rating: 3/4 --
The film is propelled by tales of Muslims wrestling with their faith and sexual identity.
Denver Post
With each familiar story, you wish Sharma dug a little deeper into the issue. Still, his message conveys.
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Let's Not Listen
Rating: 3/4 --
Often fascinating and provocative, although, as a film, it feels a bit long and somewhat repetitive.
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San Francisco Chronicle
To be called a monster and then be stoned to death is pretty much as bad as it can get.
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culturevulture.net
[Director Sharma's] focus on religion and this particular religion's all but certain hostility to same-sex love means there can be no answers to the spiritual searching of many of his characters.
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Washington Post
Covering more than half a dozen countries, Sharma stretches himself too thin, and as a result the documentary seems sketchy; he would have done well to present on-screen some of the background information in his production notes.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Filmed without permission in eight countries, this sensitive documentary captures the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims throughout the world. From Iran to France, JIHAD FOR LOVE tells the story of individuals torn between their faith and their sexuality. The title, incidentally, is not ironic but instead embraces the true meaning of jihad: "struggle."
Description by First Run Features Home Video:
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.
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.
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