Happyend

TIFF 2024: Moments of teenage ambition & delinquency captured with playful elegance. The lingering threats of surveillance culture, racial tension, and natural disaster never completely converge but instead function as a sort of invisible constriction closing in on the characters, forcing them to confront each other beyond the veil of childhood. The cast of non-actors were fantastic- and carried the film even when it ran out of new things to say.