Movielogr
Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam (2008)
Directed by Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Overview
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.
Length 52 minutes
Actors
Mansour Saberi | Abdullah | Imam Daayiee | Kaltham | Alexander Lie | B. Lennart Persson | Hüseyin Ates | Geir Søli | Emre | Tigran | Kerem