A Jihad for Love

A Jihad for Love (2007)

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

Date of release
2007-09-09
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Parvez Sharma

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary

A Jihad for Love is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Parvez Sharma and was the world's first film on Islam and homosexuality. It took a total of six years to make and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007. It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008 as the opening documentary film for the Panorama section.

Production

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Film Fund, Channel 4 Television (UK), ZDF (Germany), Arte (France-Germany), Logo (US) and SBS (Australia).

Director and producer Parvez Sharma and co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a six-year period to make the film.

In an interview with The New York Times, Sharma said that he "would shoot touristy footage on the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes of a tape", with interviews for the documentary in between, to avoid having his footage seized at customs. He posed as an employee of an AIDS relief charity in one country. The documentary was filmed in 12 different countries and in nine languages.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007, and has been screened to great acclaim at several film festivals around the world. It was the Opening film for the Panorama Dokumente section of the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2008. The U.S. theatrical release was May 21, 2008, at the IFC Center in New York City.

The website Faith in Equality put it at number 9 in a list of LGBT films about faith.

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