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AGENT OF HAPPINESS


Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya ZurbĂł | Bhutan, Hungary | 2024 | 94 Mins | Dzongkha, Nepali, English

Sun, Nov 10 | 10:30 AM | PICTURETIME 1 (BASKETBALL COURT)

Poster - AGENT OF HAPPINESS

How can you measure happiness? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that, and Amber is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are. He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of forty, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent in search of his own happiness! We embark with Amber on a cross-country road trip meeting citizens from all walks of life, reminding us of the fragility and beauty of our own happiness. No matter where we live.

Arun Bhattarai

Arun Bhattarai

Arun Bhattarai is a Bhutanese director, cinematographer, and co-producer who premiered his debut feature-length documentary, The Next Guardian (co-directed with Dorottya ZurbĂł), at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2017. He graduated from the first edition of DocNomads Joint Masters in Documentary Directing in 2014. Arun’s new film, Agent of Happiness, is supported by Sundance, Catapult Film Fund and DMZ Docs Fund. He founded Sound Pictures in 2015, one of Bhutan’s handful of production companies that focuses on creative documentaries.

Dorottya ZurbĂł

Dorottya ZurbĂł

Dorottya ZurbĂł is a documentary filmmaker from Hungary. Her first feature-length documentary, The Next Guardian (co-directed with Arun Bhattarai), received recognition at over 40 international festivals, including True/False and MoMA DocFortnight. Her directorial debut, Easy Lessons, focused on a young Somali refugee adapting to Hungary and premiered at Locarno Film Festival in 2018. ZurbĂł also teaches at the DocNomads Joint Masters programme in Europe.

Producer : Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Måté Artur Vincze, Arun Bhattarai
Cinematographer : Arun Bhattarai
Editor : Péter Sass
Sound : Rudolf VĂĄrhegyi H.S.A.S., TamĂĄs BohĂĄcs H.S.A.S.
Music : Ádåm Balåzs
Cast : Amber Kumar Gurung, Sarita Chettri, Guna Raj Kuikel, Hemlata Gurung, Yangka Lhamo, Wangmo Lhamo, Dophu Dem, Dechen Selden, Tshering Lham, Tshering, Tashi Tshomo, Karma Lhamo, Kezang Yuden, Karma Wangdi

Sundance Film Festival 2024
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Biografilm 2024 – Best Film Award

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