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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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KIX (2024)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.