Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam
- Released on
- Runtime
- 52 mins
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.
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
- Mansour Saberi
- Abdullah
- Imam Daayiee
- Kaltham
- Alexander Lie
- B. Lennart Persson
- Hüseyin Ates
- Geir Søli
- Emre
- Tigran
- Kerem
Director
- Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Producers
- Jørgen Lorentzen
