“Anger can be a positive thing if you can localise it”
The least you can say about director Asli Özarslan, is that she took some brave decisions. In her first fiction feature – a German-Turkish-French co-production – she decided to work with an amateur actress on the adaptation of a novel by Fatma Aydemir. ELBOW premiered in 2024 at the Berlinale, and has provoked a lot of discussion. Asli Özarslan: “That’s what the film was designed to do from the outset; it should encourage dialogue.”