The Sheik and I

Name: The Sheik and I
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Released: 2012-12-07
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Caveh Zahedi, Beckett Zahedi, ZuZu Snyder, Amanda Field, Colin Nusbaum

"Lights! Camera! Fatwa!"

5.6/ 10 · 0K votes

2012-12-07

1h 43m

Released

Documentary Comedy

Storyline

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.

Director

Caveh Zahedi

Keywords

blasphemy censorship religious intolerance

Production

Reinventing the Wheel