-The Projector Exclusive-

-Opens: 8 May-

Thurs 08 May - Screening + Virtual Post Show Q&A with Director Neo Sara and moderated by Filmmaker Daniel Hui. 7.30pm - 9.30pm (Screening) | 9.30pm-10.15pm (Q&A)

Please select the 08 May date, if you wish to attend the Q&A session.

7 wins & 13 nominations including Winner of Best Newcomer at 2025 Asian Film Awards.

Best friends Yuta and Kou are about to graduate high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life. One night, they pull a consequential prank on their Principal, which leads to a surveillance system being installed in the school.

Between the oppressive security system and a darkening national political situation, Kou feels increasingly frustrated with the world while Yuta seems completely unaware. Finding an empathetic ear in a passionate student activist, Kou’s political consciousness blossoms. Assuming that Yuta would never understand his newfound interests, Kou begins to avoid his friend. For the first time in their lifelong friendship, the two are forced to confront differences that they never had expressed before.

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Raised in New York and Tokyo, Neo Sora is a filmmaker, artist, and translator living between the two cities. He directed the feature-length concert film RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (2023) which premiered at Venice. He is the director/writer of the short films THE CHICKEN (Locarno 2020) and SUGAR GLASS BOTTLE (Indie Memphis 2022, winner, Best Narrative Short), and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2021. HAPPYEND is his debut fiction feature as a writer/director.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Daniel Hui is a filmmaker. A graduate of the film program in California Institute of the Arts, he is one of the founding members of 13 Little Pictures, a critically acclaimed independent film collective in Singapore. He has made four feature-length films — Eclipses (Pixel Bunker Award for International New Talent, Doclisboa IFF 2013), Snakeskin (Special Jury Award TFFDoc, Torino FF 2014; Award of Excellence, Yamagata IDFF 2015; Special Jury Mention, RIDM 2015), Demons (In Competition, Kim Jiseok Award, Busan IFF 2018; Berlinale Forum 2019), and Small Hours of the Night (IFFR 2024).