FEATURE DOCUMENTARY | 2008

Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey through a world of taboos, filled with contradictory images. He explores questions regarding faith and gender in Islam with a special focus on the unusual stories of Muslim gays. Mansour is a homosexual Iranian refugee who has been living in Oslo for the past 18 years where he works as a pharmacist. Now he wants to travel back to Istanbul, where he lived for two years before he was granted asylum in Norway.

Featuring:

Writer and Director | Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Producer | Jørgen Lorentzen
Cinematography | Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, Nils Petter Lotherington and Cengiz Tanc
Editor | Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas
Composer | Tor Lindberg
Animation | Morten Haslerud and Simon M. Valentine
Sound Design | Håkon Lammetun
Colorist | Gudmundur Gunnarsson