A Balloon for Allah

When the NorwegianTurkish 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 grandmothers path as a sufi she embarks on a journey to rediscover the Islam of her mothers 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 90yearold author Gamal alBanna 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