Happyland

After a failed career as a musician, Helen(e) returns to provincial life. Here she encounters ghosts of her youth in the shape of former band members, her great love – and a son she never had.

Evi Romen was born 1967 in Bolzano, Italy. She studied Editing & Cinematography at the Vienna Film Academy and has worked as a film editor and writer for over 20 years. She received several awards for short stories and the Diagonale Award for Best Editing 2011 for My Best Enemy and the Austrian Film Award 2016 for Best Editing for Casanova Variations. In recent years, she moved into scriptwriting, winning the Carl Mayer Award for the Best Script in 2017 for her script Hochwald. Evi Romen is the co-writer of the series M - A City Hunts a Murderer, which premiered at the Berlinale Series and was broadcast by ORF and TV now in 2019.

With the collaboration of Foro Cultural de Austria

Year of Production: 2023

Time: 91’

Country: Austria

Language: German

Director: Evi Romen

Cast: Andrea Wenzl, Simon Frühwirth, Michael Pink, Alicia Edelweiss, Michaela Rosen, Robert Stadlober, Francis Chapman, Simone Fuith, Hannes Perkmann, Lissy Pernthaler

Production: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Gregory Zalcmann

Script: Evi Romen

Director of Photography: Martin Gschlacht

Production Companies: Amour Fou Vienna GmbH /Take Five

Selected at Bolzano Film Festival Bozen

Premiere in Spain