Elaha

Category: feature
Director: Milena Aboyan
Producer: Matthias Greving
Country: Germany
Year: 2023
Length: 110'
Production Status: completed

Summary

Elaha (Bayan Layla), a 22-year-old student, is on the cusp of becoming a bride. As her community buzzes with excitement, Elaha struggles with the hidden knowledge that she’s no longer a virgin. Knowing this would cause shame to her family and fiancé, she desperately searches for options to ‘restore’ her virginity. There’s the costly surgery of hymen reconstruction, or blood capsule kits that assist with deception. But will any of it work? Director Milena Aboyan ratchets up the tension, while depicting her young protagonist’s struggle for sexual self-determination with heart-rending grace.
(Sydney Film Festival 2023)


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