Parvez Sharma's Powerful 'A Sinner In Mecca' World Premieres at Hot Docs To Acclaim and Controversy

Before Parvez Sharma's "A Sinner In Mecca" even premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs this week, it was already proving of the festival's most controversial films. Detailing the openly gay, devoutly Muslim Sharma's own pilgrimage to Mecca, the film offers a journey that significantly but the filmmaker/subject in danger as he secretly -- and illegally -- used cameras in Saudi Arabia, which also just so happens to be a country where being gay is punishable by imprisonment, a public whipping and even beheading.  The Toronto Star reported ahead of the film's world premiere that Sharma received multiple online threats that brought forth heightened security for the film's...

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