-The Projector Exclusive-

7 wins & 13 nominations including Golden Horse Film Festival Winner

On 16 May, join us for a post Happyend screening dance party with Strangweather. Dance the night away after class ends! 

Free entry for all Happyend ticket holders. Ruby Lounge 10.30pm till late. More info here. 

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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.

With striking visuals and a bold soundtrack, Happyend contemplates the journey of friendship, youthful apathy to activism, memory and the passage of time.

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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.