Happy

Feature Film, AT 2024, DCP, 110 min, OmeU

Happy, an Indian refugee, is about to be deported. His dream of a successful life in Austria has not come true. What keeps him in the country, however, is his Austrian daughter Maya, from whom he would otherwise be permanently separated. In a bid to perhaps qualify for residency and custody after all, he gives up his job as a newspaper seller and starts to work as a driver for a food delivery service. But one moment of carelessness and the house of cards comes tumbling down.

Director: Sandeep Kumar
Script: Sandeep Kumar
Cast: Sahidur Rahaman, Lilian Klebow, Roland Düringer, Robert Ritter, Gisela Salcher, Adam Sandhu, Shirin Grace
Camera: Christian Haake AAC
Editor: Claudia Linzer
Location Sound: Herbert Verdino
Music: Wolf-Maximilian Liebich
Sounddesign: Simon Proksch, Diana Macalova
Production Design: Sanja Halb
Costumes: Lena List
Producers: Sandeep Kumar, Gabriele Gruber
Production: Sandeep Kumar Films
Distribution in Austria: Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih
Funded by: BMKÖS – Kunst und Kultur
Stadt Wien MA 7
ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
World Premiere: São Paulo International Film Festival 2024
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '25
Kinostart: 30.05.2025
Production format: digital