Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam (2008)
0h 52m | PG-13
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.
Director: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Studio: Integral Film
Genre: Documentary
Video: 720p
Cast
Mansour Saberi
as Himself
Abdullah
as Himself
Imam Daayiee
as Himself
Kaltham
as Himself
Alexander Lie
as Himself
B. Lennart Persson
as Himself
Reviews
Powerful and revealing this story is without a montage of extremities and naivety. What becomes of his gender is a personal odyssey. But full of taboos and hypocrisy that if not challenged takes away from his own meaning of life.