It’s Queer History Month, and therefore, The Queer Image, a collaboration between Nieuwe Vide and Schuur, is presenting a special edition together with the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival ( IQMF). By highlighting queer film on a (inter)national level, IQMF has also made history, and we celebrate their 10 years of bringing queer joy to the forefront.
Antonij Karadzoski will give a short introduction and has selected a film for this edition: about Ahmed Umar: The Art of Sin.
After coming to Norway as a refugee, Ahmed Umar has become a renowned artist. Proud of his roots, his art mixes Sudanese and western influences.
In 2015, he came out as gay on Facebook, making him the first openly gay man from Sudan, this causes a massive outrage in the Sudanese community.
Although the 30-year dictatorship fell by revolution in 2019, homosexuality is still punishable by death in Sudan. Still, Ahmed takes a chance and goes back to Sudan to see his mother again.
Norway isn’t without dangers for openly gay immigrants either. During a Pride parade, Ahmed is badly beaten up because of his flamboyant attitude.
In “The Art of Sin”, director Ibrahim Mursal has to face his own deeply ingrained prejudice while following Ahmed’s journey. With a deeply religious background, he struggles with his own cultural concept of masculinity.
“The Art of Sin” is a journey spanning worlds and cultures, art and religion, national identities, genders and love.
Directed by : Ibrahim Mursal
Length: 58 min
Year: 2020
Subtitles: English
With after talk in the Schuurcafé
Time: 19:00h
Location: Schuur, Haarlem