"Gross national happiness is more important than gross national product", declares the King of Bhutan. Can happiness be decreed? We accompany seven Swiss musicians to this mountainous Himalayan country. Between concerts, we meet Bhutanese people in their daily lives, who tell us, as if in passing, what makes them happy. Are we capable of finding happiness elsewhere? Does the advantage of globalization lie precisely in the erasure of the elsewhere? The whole world is in the here and now, and distant horizons are always close to us, transported by SMS...
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Dieter Fahrer Director · Lisa Röösli Director Ugyen Wangdi Cinematographer
First release January 21, 2010 · Produced in Switzerland · Languages Dzongkha, English, German
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Balzli & Fahrer Filmproduktion
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SRG SSR
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ARTE GEIE
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SRF
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Switzerland
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Original language
English
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Dzongkha · English · German
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Switzerland · January 21, 2010
Theatrical · Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
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