How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World

Feature Film, AT 2025, DCP, 102 min, OmeU + VI

Pia (Luisa-Céline Gaffron) is in her mid-twenties and has problems: the world is a single disaster, just like Pia’s head. Fresh out of the psychiatric hospital, she has to navigate between her parents, ex-boyfriend, and other demons. Everyone lives in their own reality? Pia lives in many. Just like How to Be Normal … is not one movie, but several. In addition, it is a huge desiring-machine. An infernal comedy. A gateway to our present, this time of monsters. And a brilliant maelstrom of fragments called Pia.

Director: Florian Pochlatko
Script: Florian Pochlatko
Cast: Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Felix Pöchhacker, Oliver Rosskopf, Lion Thomas Tatzber-Poms, Martina Poel, David Scheid, Wes Byrne
Camera: Adrian Bidron
Editor: Julia Drack
Location Sound: Nora Czamler
Music: Rosa Anschütz, Jan Wagner
Sounddesign: Lenja Gathmann, Jón Geirfinnsson
Production Design: Julia Oberdorfinger, Attila Plangger
Costumes: Anna Zeitlhuber
Additional Credits: Maskenbild: Nora Conradi, Tom Mayr; Tonmischung: Rudolf Pototschnig; Casting: Martina Poel; Farbkorrektur: Lee Niederkofler; Postproduktionsleitung: Valentin Renoldner; Produktionsleitung: Jeannette Ziemeck
Producers: Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
Production: Golden Girls Film
World Sales: Alpha Violet
Distribution in Austria: Filmladen
Funded by: ÖFI – Österreichisches Filminstitut
ÖFI+
FFW – Filmfonds Wien
ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
Land Niederösterreich Kultur
CINE ART
World Premiere: Berlinale Perspectives 2025
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '25
Kinostart: 19.09.2025
Production format: digital