Film Screening: Elbow, with Director Aslı Özarslan and Novelist Fatma Aydemir (off-site)

This event requires registration; see further details below.

Note that this screening is organized by the Goethe-Institut Boston and takes place at an off-site location in Brookline, Mass. For questions regarding the event, please contact the Goethe-Institut Boston directly (contact information below).

We encourage visitors to our special exhibition Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation to attend a special screening of the film Elbow, at Coolidge Corner Theatre.

Directed by Aslı Özarslan and based on Fatma Aydemir’s novel of the same name, Elbow is an intense portrait of a young woman who is acutely aware of the xenophobia and racism in Berlin society. Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her greatest wish: a chance. She can’t get a job, and she can’t get a break—she shouldn’t dream too big, everyone says. On her 18th birthday, a bouncer refuses to let her and her friends into a club. It turns out to be the one rejection that pushes her over the edge. Soon, Hazal is fleeing Berlin for Istanbul. She pays a high price to free herself from the projections of those around her.

Both the film director and novelist will join for a panel after the screening.

About the film:
Elbow, 2024 (Aslı Özarslan; German and Turkish, with English subtitles; 86 min.). Admission for this film at the Coolidge Corner Theatre is $7.00 and seating is limited. Please visit the Coolidge Corner Theatre website at this link to purchase tickets. For any questions, please contact Karin.Oehlenschlaeger@goethe.de at the Goethe-Institut Boston.

Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation is on view at the Harvard Art Museums from September 13, 2024 through January 5, 2025.