UMFF 2024. 9. 27 - 10. 1

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Agent of Happiness

Agent of Happiness

  • Bhutan, Hungary
  • 2024
  • 94min
  • Documentary
  • color

Schedule

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  • 09.30 MON19:00
    Umff Cinema

SYNOPSIS

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. 

NOTE

[Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó, Directors​]

Agent of Happiness is a bittersweet tale that takes place in an environment which is still enigmatic. We believe that it is also important to produce stories with uplifting, heart-warming potential in difficult times, that this is one of our responsibilities as artists. 

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Director

Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó

Arun is a director, cinematographer, and co-producer. He is one of the few independent documentary filmmakers in Bhutan. Dorottya is a co-director of the film. Besides filmmaking, she has been teaching at the prestigious DocNomads Joint Master program in Europe. 

Credit

Producer
Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Máté Artur Vincze, Arun Bhattarai
Cast
Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel
Cinematography
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
Editor
Péter Sass
Music
Ádám Balázs
Sound
Rudolf Várhegyi H.S.A.S., Tamás Bohács H.S.A.S.
Script
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó