The Sheik and I

The Sheik and I

#Lights, Camera, Fatwa!


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1h 43m 2012 HD

When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.


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