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DESCRIPTION:When the Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise Özkal Lorentzen was
  little\, she used to send letters to Allah by balloon. Now she wants to s
 end a new balloon to change the role of women in the Muslim culture. By fo
 llowing her grandmother's path as a 'sufi'\, she embarks on a journey to r
 ediscover the Islam of her mother's mother. The film switches between her 
 actual journey and her dreams. She experiences the diversity of Cairo\, Is
 tanbul and Oslo by drinking tea with the Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadaw
 i\, finding hope and inspiration in the life of the 90-year-old author Gam
 al al-Banna and meeting a young Salafist. On her journey through the labyr
 inth\, 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. Written by Integral Film. (IMDB.com)
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SUMMARY:Middle Eastern Studies Program presents: A Balloon to Allah 
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:When the Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise Öz
 kal Lorentzen was little\, she used to send letters to Allah by balloon. N
 ow she wants to send a new balloon to change the role of women in the Musl
 im 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 swit
 ches between her actual journey and her dreams. She experiences the divers
 ity of Cairo\, Istanbul and Oslo by drinking tea with the Egyptian feminis
 t Nawal El Saadawi\, finding hope and inspiration in the life of the 90-ye
 ar-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 plac
 e to search\, but that there are correlations between the three Abrahamic 
 religion and the oppression of women. Written by Integral Film. (IMDB.com)
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