GERMAN CURRENTS FILM FESTIVAL 2024
ELBOW

ELLBOGEN

Sat, 10/12/2024
10:00 PM Los Feliz 3 Theatre

Presented on Saturday, October 12th @ 10:00 PM at the American Cinematheque's Los Feliz 3 Theatre. 

SOLD OUT - ELBOW - SOLD OUT

THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT.
THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE WILL HAVE A STAND-BY LINE IN FRONT OF THE THEATER.
 

Germany (2024) 86 min. DCP Projection.  German/English/Turkish with English Subtitles
Director Aslı Özarslan
Screenplay Claudia Schaefer and Aslı Özarslan, Based on the novel "Ellbogen" by Fatma Aydemir
Cinematographer Andaç Karabeyoğlu-Thomas
Cast Melia Kara, Jamilah Bagdach, Asya Utku, Nurgül Ayduran, Jale Arikan, Mina Özlem Sağdiç,
Doğa Gürer, Ercan Karaçayli
Producer Jamila Wenske
Co-producers Delphine Schmit, Guillaume Dreyfus, Anna Maria Aslanoğlu, Julia Irene Peters, Jutta Feit
Production Company Achtung Panda!
Co-production Company Tripode Productions, Istos Film, JIP Film und Verleih, ZDF (Das kleine Fernsehspiel)

17-year-old Hazal is a Turkish-German teen living in Berlin. Her biggest dream: to be given a chance at a future outside of her parents' bakery. Despite her best efforts to find an apprenticeship, her mediocre grades and numerous rejected applications leave her with few options. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and hit the clubs with her friends. But the night’s celebration is cut short after the girls are turned away by a bouncer at a dance club. When the teens are harassed in the subway on their way home, the situation escalates and Hazal’s frustration about her rejections erupts into a fatal incident. Forced to flee to Turkey, a country she hardly knows, Hazal must survive at all costs. Based on the award-winning-novel "Ellbogen" by Fatma Aydemir, Özarslan’s debut feature is a skillfully crafted and intense portrait of a young woman struggling to hold her ground in a society that seems to cast her aside.
 

FESTIVALS, AWARDS & NOMINATIONS: 
Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis 2024 Frankfurter Buchmesse Award - Best Adaption
Goldener Spatz 2024 Audience Award, Best Youth Film
Internationales Frauen FF Dortmund+Köln 2024 Best Debut Director, Best Debut Feature
Lichter Filmfest 2024 Best Regional Feature

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Aslı Özarslan was born in Berlin. She studied theatre and media at the University of Bayreuth, philosophy and sociology at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and documentary film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In 2009, she directed her first short film; in 2012, she created the 11-minute video installation Kanak Sprak Bist Du, about the German dialect spoken by young people in multiethnic communities, for the Humboldt Box. Her 2014 film Insel 36 and her 2016 graduation film Dil Leyla has won numerous national and international awards. Her debut feature ELBOW had its world premiere at the 74th Berlinale in the Generation section.

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The German Currents Film Festival is produced by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque in kind cooperation with the German Consulate General, and with the support of The Friends of Goethe, Condor, ELMA, Villa Aurora, and the German Film Office.