The Sheik and I

Name: The Sheik and I
Director: Caveh Zahedi
Released: 2012-12-07
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Caveh Zahedi, Beckett Zahedi, ZuZu Snyder, Amanda Field, Colin Nusbaum

5.6

December 7, 2012

1h 43m

Documentary

"Lights! Camera! Fatwa!"

Overview

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.