Ellbow

Seventeen-year-old Hazal from Berlin has one prominent wish: a chance in life. She is stuck looking for a job and encounters prejudice wherever she goes. On her 18th birthday, all she really wants to do is party. But after a dramatic incident, Hazal has to flee to Istanbul, an unfamiliar city where she must find her way on her own. Adapting an award-winning novel for her fiction debut, German director Aslı Özarslan tells a startling story of an outsider’s fight for recognition and equality.