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Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam (2008)
Directed by Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Documentary · 52m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
- Writer
- Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
- Director of Photography
- Nils-Petter Lotherington
- Editor
- Mette Munthe-Kaas
- Producer
- Jørgen Lorentzen
Details
- Release date
- 2008-01-16
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- NO
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English, Norwegian, Turkish
- Countries
- Norway
- Production
- Integral Film