15 February 2008
FILMS ABOUT GAY MUSLIMS SHINE AT BERLINALE
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FILMS ABOUT GAY MUSLIMS SHINE AT BERLINALE
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have insisted during his visit to the U.S. last year that "in Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country," but a documentary, Be Like Others from director Tanaz Eshaghian, dealing with the social pressures faced by homosexuals in Iran, won the jury prize at the Berlinale's Teddy Queer Film Awards Thursday. Olaf de Fleur's The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela won the best feature Teddy. Also screening at the festival is Egyptian Parvez Sharma's A Jihad for Love, which, the director has said, seeks to call attention to the plight of gay Muslims while at the same time "defending the faith."
15/02/2008
