HAPPYEND

Feature Film

Happyend (2024)
Writer and Director - Neo Sora
Director of Photography - Bill Kirstein

Two teenage best friends living in near-future Tokyo, where earthquakes are part of the fabric of life, must confront the end of their friendship as they navigate diverging paths towards adulthood.


Film Festivals

• Venice International Film Festival 2024 - Orizzonti Competition

• Toronto International Film Festival 2024 - Centerpiece

• New York Film Festival 2024 - Main Slate
  
  

​With Support From

The Sundance Institute Asian American Foundation Fellowship 2022
Sundance Catalyst 2022
Sundance Producer’s Summit 2022
Sundance Director’s Lab 2022
Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab 2022
Ties That Bind 2021
Gotham Week Project Market 2021
Talents Tokyo Next Masters Grantee 2020
Berlinale Talents Tokyo 2017

Press

• Magnify Boards Neo Sora’s Venice-Bound Japanese Dystopian Film ‘Happyend’ (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety, 2024

• Sundance Institute Sets Fellows For 2022 Screenwriters Lab - Deadline, 2022

• Locarno Competition Filmmaker Neo Sora Prepares Debut Feature ‘Earthquake’ - Variety, 2021