Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam
MovieTitle | Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 16, 2008 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Nefise Özkal Lorentzen |
Production country | Norway |
Production companies | Integral Film |
Run time | 52 min. |
Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey through a world of taboos, filled with contradictory images. He explores questions regarding faith and gender in Islam with a special focus on the unusual stories of Muslim gays. Mansour is a homosexual Iranian refugee who has been living in Oslo for the past 18 years where he works as a pharmacist. Now he wants to travel back to Istanbul, where he lived for two years before he was granted asylum in Norway.