HOW TO BE NORMAL AND THE ODDNESS OF THE OTHER WORLD
A film by Florian Pochlatko
Drama | 102 min | AT 2025
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SYNOPSIS
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Fresh out of psychiatry, Pia moves back in with her parents to rebuild her life. Juggling jobs, heartbreak, meds, and stigma, she stumbles into a world spiraling out of control / that feels as unsteady as she does.
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
WORLD SALES
WORLD SALES
WORLD SALES
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION
AUSTRIA
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AUSTRIA
FILMLADEN FILM DISTRIBUTION
LINKS
DISTRIBUTION
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FESTIVALS
75. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN
Perspektives
DIAGONALE 2025
Opening Film
VENICE INT. FILM CRITCS' WEEK 2022
IWOLDERFULL Grand Prize
Silver Ship for the best One True Pairing assigned to a couple of characters
Nominated for Queer Lion
FESTIVALS
VENICE INT. FILM CRITICS' WEEK 2022
World Premiere
ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Fokus Competition
REYKJAVIK INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2022
New Visions Competition
VENICE INT. FILM CRITCS' WEEK 2022
IWOLDERFULL Grand Prize
Silver Ship for the best One True Pairing assigned to a couple of characters
Nominated for Queer Lion
FESTIVALS
VENICE INT. FILM CRITICS' WEEK 2022
World Premiere
ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Fokus Competition
REYKJAVIK INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2022
New Visions Competition
QUOTES
"Pochlatko’s artistic vision is precise and exacting. He shoots Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Pia with a tenderness that makes it abundantly clear how much he cares for this character."
- (LOUD & CLEAR)
"Pochlatko wants to build bridges to understand neurodiverse people, and to point out that coming off the pills makes the illness even worse."
- (CINEUROPA)
"Pochlatko takes risks with alternating aspect ratios and experimental storytelling that make this feature truly unique."
- (LOUD & CLEAR)
"Pochlatko has made an impressive debut, demonstrating an innate ability to blend the personal with the universal, the real with the imaginary. A work that is not afraid to explore the uncomfortable" - (CALIGARI)
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INFO
RUNNING TIME – 102 minutes
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE – German, English
LOCATIONS – Austria
SUBTITLES – German, English
SCREENING FORMAT – DCP DCI Flat
SOUND FORMAT – 5.1
ASPECT RATIO – 1:1,85 2K
FRAMES/SEC – 24
CREW
DIRECTOR
Florian Pochlatko
SCREENPLAY
Florian Pochlatko
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Adrian Bidron
EDITING
Julia Drack
SOUND
Nora Czamler
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Julia Oberndorfinger, Attila Plangger
COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Zeitlhuber
MAKE UP
Nora Conradi, Tom Mayr
GAFFER
Alex Sprenger
MUSIC
Rosa Anschütz
SOUND DESIGN
Lenja Gathmann, Jón H. Geirfinnson
RE-RECORDING MIXER
Rudolf Pototschnig
COLOURS
Lee Niederkofler
VFX
Valerie Wöllner, Yamine Nasime
CASTING
Martina Poel
LINE PRODUCER
Sabine Gruber
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Jeannette Ziemeck
PRODUCERS
Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY
Arman T. Riahi
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mario Minichmayr
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Martin Reiter
SOUND
Atanas Tcholakov
EDITING
Karina Ressler
ADDITIONAL EDITING
Joana Scrinzi
SCORE
Karwan Marouf
COSTUME DESIGN
Monika Buttinger
MAKE-UP
Birgit Beranek
CASTING
Nicole Schmied
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Christine Schwarzinger
PRODUCER
Arash T. Riahi & Karin C. Berger
CAST
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Elke Winkens
Cornelius Obonya
Felix Pöchhacker
Oliver Rosskopf
Lion Thomas Tatzber-Poms
David Scheid
Wesley Byrne
Martina Poel
Nancy Mensah-Offei
Pia Zimmermann
Harald Krassnitzer
Jutta Fastian
Reinhold G. Moritz
Fanny Altenburger
And many more
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