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The Sheik and I
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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“Lights! Camera! Fatwa!”
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- Dec 7, 2012
- 1h 43m
- English
- Caveh Zahedi
- Released
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