Overview

• Film Movement picked up U.S. distribution rights after Metrograph paused operations and reverted the film’s rights to sales agent Magnify
• The official American trailer dropped in late July, offering a glimpse of the film’s dystopian school surveillance and looming earthquake threat
• The story follows two high school friends whose prank on their principal triggers an intrusive monitoring system that tests their lifelong bond
• Happyend premiered in Venice’s Orizzonti section in 2024 and subsequently played at London, Marrakech and New York film festivals
• Neo Sora makes his narrative filmmaking debut with this project after directing a 2023 documentary about his father, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto