Film Club - A Balloon for Allah

Come along to our relaunched film club and watch classic/cult/interesting movies with a group of like-minded people! - PLEASE NOTE THAT MEMBERSHIP OF OUR FILM SOCIETY IS REQUIRED FOR ATTENDANCE ($20 per year - covers up to 10 films per year). You can take out a membership by following this link: Membership (mfc.au). Members may bring a guest for a limited number of visits.

Our Norwegian season continues with 'A Balloon For Allah'. 

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 religions and the oppression of women.

Please feel free to bring along some snacks for yourself or to share.

Hope to see you there!