religion
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A Sinner In Mecca
Out gay Muslim filmmaker Parvez Sharma has followed his award -winning documentary ‘A Jihad For Love’ with an even more daring look at what it takes to renew his faith when he goes to Mecca for his sacred pilgrimage called a Hajj. Every Muslim is expected to do this at least once in their lifetime,…
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IDA
It’s hard to decide exactly what period this new cinematic masterpiece from Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski is set in with its austere dramatic settings that look like they have remained unchanged for centuries. This unforgiving bleak countryside that seems to have escaped any attempt at modernisation is in fact 1962 but you have this sinking feeling that…
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Tennessee Queer
When Jason Potts leaves his boyfriend in New York and goes back to his hometown of Smythe in Tennessee for a brief visit to see his family, he suddenly finds himself in the centre of a drama that no-one could have seen coming, least of all him. After some very absurd events he finds himself…
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Kidnapped For Christ
This is a sadly very true tale about how American parents are willingly to shell out some $72000 per year (that’s $10000 more than Harvard’s fees) to have their children forcibly detained by fundamental Christian Evangelists at a ‘camp’ in a remote part of the Dominican Republic to undertake treatment euphemistically called behavior modification. The…
