The Taqwacores (film)
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Director Eyad Zahra Duration Initial DVD release April 5, 2011 Country United States | 6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Music Running time 1h 24m Music director Omar Fadel Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 24, 2010 (2010-01-24) (Sundance) Writer Michael Muhammad Knight (screenplay), Michael Muhammad Knight (story), Eyad Zahra (screenplay) Cast Noureen DeWulf , Jim Dickson , Volkan Eryaman , Denise George Similar movies Fish Tank , Factory Girl , Pitch Perfect 2 , The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things , The Last Witch Hunter , At the Edge of the Abyss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Taqwacores is a 2010 film adaptation of the 2003 novel The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight. The film was directed by Eyad Zahra and stars Bobby Naderi, Dominic Rains, and Noureen Dewulf. The film imagines a fictitious Islamic punk rock scene through characters living in a punk house in Buffalo, New York. It was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Plot
A sophomore majoring in engineering, Yusef (Bobby Naderi) seeks living quarters with fellow Muslims after a year in the godless dorms. He moves—rather improbably, given his conservative nature—into a building inhabited by various punky misfits (it is unclear whether they are also students) wrestling with their cultural and religious identity. Or, as red-mohawked guitarist Jehangir (Dominic Rains) puts it, their "mismatching of disenfranchised subcultures."
Others include ever-shirtless skateboarding wild man Amazing Ayyub (Volkan Eryaman), spike-haired stoner Fasiq (Ian Tran) and brawny, glowering Umar (Nav Mann), the would-be moral enforcer in a houseful of rebels against Koranic strictures. Sole female in residence is Rabeya (Noureen DeWulf), who wears a head-to-toe burka yet is full of ideas that might be considered blasphemous.
Cast
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music
The Taqwacores features an original score by Los Angeles composer, Omar Fadel, as well as licensed music from The Kominas and Al-Thawra.
References
The Taqwacores (film) WikipediaThe Taqwacores (film) IMDb The Taqwacores (film) themoviedb.org