Ellbogen

My name is Hazal Akgündüz, and my theme is: Survival. She is seventeen and was born in Berlin. She could easily become an ordinary adult. The only problem is that her immigrant parents from Turkey feel out of place in Germany, and Hazal makes fatal mistakes in her search for home. At first, it’s just a stolen lipstick, then it escalates to blunt violence. When the police are after her, Hazal flees to Istanbul, a place she has never been before. Fatma Aydemir tells a warm-hearted and wild story about the many people living between cultures and nations, and their quest for a place in the world. People want to help Hazal, they want to run through the night with her, and they want to know what happens next for her and for all of us.