A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film used covered faces and silhouettes in order to protect the safety of sources whose lives would have been in danger had their identities been revealed.
- Quotes
Muhsin Hendricks: We cannot find answers within orthodox Islam thinking. We have to use one of the principles of Islam that has been lost over the years, Ijtihad, meaning "Independent reasoning," to find space for us within Islam.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Teddy Award 2008 (2008)
Featured review
Wrong
The movie might have hit a mark with the gay community, but is that really what it was aiming at? And should it be aiming at that? I do think that it missed a great opportunity, to "open the eyes" of others (i.e. straight people). Even if you're gay and/or try to like the movie because of it's idea(ls), you can't close your eyes to it's faults ... at least you shouldn't.
While it starts off kind of good (with the person that might easily be the most likable of the bunch), it departs and leaves you bedazzled (in all the wrong ways). While it tries more to shock than to make us sympathize with it's people, it get's more incoherent every minute that it runs. The reason is, that we get rushed through different "gay people/couples", while not learning much from them as people. Yes it is difficult to be gay, even more so in a community that despises homosexuals. But talking about the Koran at five different parts of the movie, while not revealing anything new, you do really wonder, why that time wasn't used for something else. Yes it is a documentary with a meaning, but does that justify giving it a great summary and or vote it higher than it really deserves?
It would've been easy to bash this movie, because it is about a minority, but while I'm not part of the minority, I do not condemn anyone for their likings. I do have the right to criticize the movie/documentary for it's execution though. There is more that could've been done with a (hot) topic like this
While it starts off kind of good (with the person that might easily be the most likable of the bunch), it departs and leaves you bedazzled (in all the wrong ways). While it tries more to shock than to make us sympathize with it's people, it get's more incoherent every minute that it runs. The reason is, that we get rushed through different "gay people/couples", while not learning much from them as people. Yes it is difficult to be gay, even more so in a community that despises homosexuals. But talking about the Koran at five different parts of the movie, while not revealing anything new, you do really wonder, why that time wasn't used for something else. Yes it is a documentary with a meaning, but does that justify giving it a great summary and or vote it higher than it really deserves?
It would've been easy to bash this movie, because it is about a minority, but while I'm not part of the minority, I do not condemn anyone for their likings. I do have the right to criticize the movie/documentary for it's execution though. There is more that could've been done with a (hot) topic like this
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- kosmasp
- Jul 14, 2008
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- Also known as
- In the Name of Allah
- Filming locations
- Bangladesh(location)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $105,651
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,519
- May 25, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $105,651
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
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