“How to Be Normal and The Oddness of The Other World”, interview with the director Florian Pochatklo

Florian Pochaktlo‘s surprising first feature film “How To Be Normal and The Oddness of The Other World” had its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, in the Perspective section. The definitely personal and multi-layered take on mental health is narrated through the character of Pia, a young woman just released from a mental care facilities who tries to enter the “normal” world , the other world for her.

The main question raised is: who can tell what is normal?

Florian Pochatklo  asks this universal question , as a foundation of his film “How To Be Normal and The Oddness of The Other World” : who has the right in our contemporary world to define and declare what is normal? With this question in mind the world of Pia, the lead character of the film, is a series of invalid answers to this same question, while she tries to navigate her return to the “other” world, the one of so-called normal people.

A varied and eclectic approach to the visuals aspects of the film

Florian Pochatklo chooses an aesthetic approach that is mixed and almost schizophrenic, in terms of formats and framing and editing, both on the images and the audio. This is a mirror to Pia’s perception of the world outside that pretty often is clearer and more honest that the one regular people want to admit.

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