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Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

2008•52m•Documentary

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.

Nefise Özkal Lorentzen · Director

Nefise Özkal Lorentzen · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime52m
LanguageNO
Release DateJan 16, 2008

Actors

Mansour Saberi

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Abdullah

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Imam Daayiee

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Kaltham

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Alexander Lie

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B. Lennart Persson

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Hüseyin Ates

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Geir Søli

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Emre

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Tigran

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Kerem

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