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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:23
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: This powerful documentary explores an important subject -- homosexuality in the Muslim world -- with humanity and courage.
Theatrical Release:May 21, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack from within and without, A Jihad for Love is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma... [More]
Director: Parev Sharma
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The Muslims here feel bound up in an internal battle (the primary meaning of jihad) as they try to make peace between divine and earthly loves. What's lacking are deeper, more involved ruminations on such feelings, reconciliations and self-recriminations.
Properly promoted, the honest humanity of this festival fave has the potential to attract crossover crowds.
The accounts are powerful, but so many of the interviewees' faces are blurred to preserve their anonymity that it feels like you're watching A Jihad for Love through a shower curtain.
Parvez Sharma's documentary, "A Jihad for Love", traces heartening, harrowing stories of Muslim gay men and lesbians.
A powerful, important documentary.
Often fascinating and provocative, although, as a film, it feels a bit long and somewhat repetitive.
director Parvez Sharma sets out across the world to find out what it means to be gay and Muslim. In most cases, it means trouble.
Parvez Sharma shares the fundamentalist Muslim perspective, which will look depressingly familiar to anyone who has seen the other films.
A poignant and sobering depiction of the struggle of gay Muslims in 12 countries to reconcile their sexual orientation with their faith.
The movie leaves open a provocative question: If you pick and choose which tenets of a religion apply to you, is it still a religion?
Top CriticMore than the question of whether the mainstream religions can ever accept homosexuality, Jihad For Love shines a light on religious devotion, a powerful thing for some, even in the face of persecution and death.
A Jihad for Love is a courageous documentary on the plight of gays in the Muslim world, and it reveals how the devout attempt to reconcile their sexual orientation and their faith.
Top CriticTo be called a monster and then be stoned to death is pretty much as bad as it can get.
The film is propelled by tales of Muslims wrestling with their faith and sexual identity.
Makes an invaluable contribution by recording the names, faces, and stories of gay men and women struggling to reconcile their religion with their sexuality.
A Jihad for Love is a dispatch from the outer limits of marginalization: a documentary on devout Muslims struggling with their homosexuality.
A much-needed reminder that the foundation for any great religion is love and tolerance.
[Director Sharma's] focus on religion and this particular religion's all but certain hostility to same-sex love means there can be no answers to the spiritual searching of many of his characters.
As it examines the point where sexuality and Islam meet in seven very different cultures, the film becomes far more universal than we expect.
As compelling in its way as Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So.
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