SCREENING FRIDAY 9TH SEPT 9:45PM (BOILER ROOM)
PROFANE
Usama Alshaibi / 2010 / USA / 79 mins
Muna is a young Muslim sex worker in the midst of a spiritual crisis. Searching for her “jinn,” a demon, both good and evil, that resides in us all according to the Quran. Through this she hopes to reconcile her traditional Islamic upbringing represented by her uneasy friendship with Ali, a cab driver with her current, decadent Western lifestyle embodied by her fellow domme Mary. In this psychosexual horror story, Alshaibi combines his background in political documentary and transgressive cinema to tell an intensely personal story about the clash between Western and Middle Eastern cultures.
“Psycho-sexual horror story of one woman’s struggle with her identity and the culture clash between Middle Eastern mythology and Western pop culture.” – Kevin Monahan
