When the Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise Özkal Lorentzen was little, she used to send letters to Allah by balloon. Now she wants to send a new balloon to change the role of women in the Muslim culture. By following her grandmother's path as a 'sufi', she embarks on a journey to rediscover the Islam of her mother's mother. The film switches between her actual journey and her dreams. She experiences the diversity of Cairo, Istanbul and Oslo by drinking tea with the Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi, finding hope and inspiration in the life of the 90-year-old author Gamal al-Banna and meeting a young Salafist. On her journey through the labyrinth, it dawns on Nefise that Islam is not the only place to search, but that there are correlations between the three Abrahamic religion and the oppression of women.
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En ballong til Allah - trailer - Movies on War 2018
En ballong til Allah er en film som inviterer til en ny måte å forstå islam på – særlig for kvinner. Tema: Spesial Ungdom Foredrag Sjanger: Dokumentar ...
En Ballong til Allah: Kvinner og Islam
Da den norsk-tyrkiske filmskaperen Nefise var liten pleide hun å sende ballongbrev til Allah. Nå vil hun sende en ny ballong for å endre kvinnens rolle i den ...
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The Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise Özkal Lorentzen decides to send a green balloon to Allah with the message that the role of women in Muslim cultures ...
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