Agent of Happiness (2024)

Original title

དགའ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས།

Directed by

Dorottya Zurbó, Arun Bhattarai

Genre

documentary film

Country

Bhutan, Hungary

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

U

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Bhutanese officials travel across the country to interview citizens and measure their happiness for the government's Gross National Happiness index. The film follows two agents as they encounter a range of personal stories and living situations.

observationalgentlethoughtfulintimatequietly humorousreflectivecontemplative

What happens

Agent of Happiness is a 2024 documentary film directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó, and produced by Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Máté Artur Vincze, and Arun Bhattarai. It follows Bhutanese government officials, Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, as they travel through the country to measure people's happiness levels, which are then used to calculate the Gross National Happiness score. It had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary category. The film won the Best Non-Fiction Film Award at the 2nd Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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