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Generation 14plus Title ‘Elbow,’ From ‘Dil Leyla’ Director Aslı Ozarslan, Drills Down on Challenges Facing Young Immigrants
Aslı Özarslan’s ‘Elbow' adapts Fatma Aydemir's award-winning novel of the same name.
Aslı Özarslan’s “Elbogen” (“Elbow”), an adaptation of Fatma Aydemir’s award-winning novel of the same name, tells the story of Hazal (played by Melia Kara), a young woman in Berlin struggling to find a job and start a life of her own. Özarslan’s past works include the 2016 documentary “Dil Leyla,” about a young Kurdish-German woman who is elected mayor of Cizre, a Turkish city on the border with Syria. Especially these days, when the young generation has many opportunities and freedom to express themselves, but at the same time they are threatened by backward and right-wing parties that want to determine which nationality or sexuality is right.
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