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No More Flowers

ELBOW
ELLBOGEN

• Director: Aslı Özarslan
• GERMANY, TÜRKİYE, FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 86’ / German, Turkish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Claudia Schaefer, Aslı Özarslan
• Original Work: Fatma Aydemir
• Director of Photography: Andaç Karabeyoğlu-Thomas
• Editing: David J. Achilles, Ana Branea
• Music: Delphine Mantoulet
• Cast: Melia Kara, Doğa Gürer, Jale Arıkan, Haydar Şahin, Orhan Kılıç, Jamilah Bagdach, Asya Utku, Mina Sağdıç
• Producer: Jamila Wenske
• Production Co.: Achtung Panda! Media
• World Sales: ArtHood Entertainment
• Turkish Rights: istos film

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish: to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But a fatal incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee away to Istanbul –a city and a country that she is not familiar with at all. Adapted to screen from the novel Ellbogen by Fatma Aydemir, who tackles the impact of migration in her works, by Berlin-born Director Aslı Özarslan, Elbow had its world premiere at the Generation K14plus section in February at the Berlinale.

This film is screened with the kind contribution of Goethe Institut Istanbul and German Films.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.