A Balloon for Allah
Directed by Nefise Özkal Lorentzen27 czerwca 2011 52 minDokumentalny
7.3
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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A Balloon for Allah was released on 27 czerwca 2011.
A Balloon for Allah was directed by Nefise Özkal Lorentzen.
A Balloon for Allah has a runtime of 52 min.
A Balloon for Allah was produced by Jørgen Lorentzen.
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.
The key characters in A Balloon for Allah are Narrator (voice) (Nefise Özkal Lorentzen).
A Balloon for Allah is a Dokumentalny film.
A Balloon for Allah has an audience rating of 7.3 out of 10.
A Balloon for Allah had a budget of 2,4 mld USD.