Event series

in January

Fokus on Fatma Aydemirs "Ellbogen"

Book Club and Film Screening

Filmposter, Ellbogen | Elbow von Aslı Özarslan, 2024 (Detail) © ACHTUNG PANDA!

Melia Kara in "Elbow" | Elbow von Aslı Özarslan, 2024 © ACHTUNG PANDA!

An intense portrait of a young woman struggling to assert herself in a society that marginalizes her.

The Goethe-Institut Montreal is pleased to present a reading circle on the award-winning debut novel Elbow by Fatma Aydemir and the film based on it by Aslı Özarslan.
The events will be accompanied by an interview with the filmmaker and the author, which you can read here. [Link to follow.]

The event is thematically related to the (online) festival “Longing/Belonging” of the Goethe-Instituts in North America, which took place in 2024. To know more about it >

More information and details about the reading circle and the film events can be found directly under the events.