Aslı Özarslan (*19.07.1986 in Berlin) studied Theatre and Media studies at University Bayreuth as well as Philosophy and Sociology at Université Sorbonne IV in Paris. She studied directing at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In 2015 she got the renowned scholarship of Visual Arts at The Academy of Arts Berlin, and in 2017 she was a scholarship holder of the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul, Turkey. Her documentary films "Island 36" and "Dil Leyla" won several awards internationally and nationally.
In 2014 followed the Deutschlandstipendium, in 2015 the scholarship of the Academy of Arts in the section Film and Media Arts and in 2017 the scholarship of the Cultural Academy Tarabya in Istanbul. In 2023 she was invited by NETFLIX for a Talent Workshop in Prague.
With her current debut film project ELLBOGEN she was part of the Torino Film Lab 2020. The film is now in post-production and will be released in cinema this winter.