Description
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 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness.
• Best International Film, BIOGRAFILM
• Audience Award, San Francisco
• Audience Award, Margaret Mead Festival
About the directors:
Arun Bhattarai
Director, cinematographer, co-producer, Bhutan. He graduated from the first edition of DocNomads Joint Master in documentary directing in 2014. His recent short documentary Mountain Man has been screened at IDFA, DOC NYC, Chicago IFF etc. He established his own production company “Sound Pictures” dedicated to creative documentaries in 2015.
Dorottya Zurbó
Co-director, Hungary. Her directorial debut Easy Lessons was premiered at the Locarno’ Critics Week section in 2018. The film participated in more than 40 international festivals and it received awards such as the Hungarian Critics Award for Best Documentary in 2019. Beside filmmaking she has been teaching at the DocNomads Joint Master program in Europe.
Their first feature-length documentary The Next Guardian was premiered at IDFA in 2017. The film has been screened at more than 40 international festivals including Message to Man IFF.