Hazal’s most fervent wish is to have a life. Although she has sent out numerous job applications, she hasn’t been invited to a single interview. Instead, she is stuck in a training program where she faces constant stereotyping. But on her 18th birthday, Hazal feels powerful and her friends believed they could achieve anything as long as they stuck together. On the way home, after a frustrating night, they meet an arrogant student who harasses them. The confrontation escalates and is unleashed in a fateful encounter. Hazal hastily flees to Istanbul, a completely new city in an unfamiliar country. There she must survive on her own, at any cost.
Presented at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Elbow
2024
16 years
86 min.
Fiction
Germany, Turkey, France
Germany, Turkey, France, youth, maturing, crime, social portrait, existential crisis, international film festivals, female directors
Colorido
Aslı Özarslan
Claudia Schaefer, Aslı Özarslan
Andac Karabeyoglu
Ana Branea, David J. Achilles
Melia Kara, Jamilah Bagdach, Asya Utku, Nurgül Ayduran, Doğa Gürer, Mina Özlem Sagdic, Jale Arikan
Jamila Wenske
Achtung Panda! Media
Délphine Mantoulet
ArtHood Entertainment
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