Agent Of Happiness (Bhutan) "Lovely kind and honest" Nambour Wed Night
Wed, 26 Mar
|Nambour
Happiness is a mandated goal in Bhutan and agent Amber Gurang is out in the field assessing its inhabitants. Amber is also looking for love, caring for his mother and wanting official papers. His own happiness also needs assessing in this warm and absorbing documentary. "Gorgeously shot."
Time & Location
26 Mar 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Nambour, Centenary Square, Currie St, Nambour QLD 4560, Australia
About the Event
Agent Of Happiness film trailer HERE
90 Min All Ages Directors Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó. Stars Amber Gurang and Guna Raj Kuikel
Happiness is a mandated goal in Bhutan and agent Amber Gurang is out in the field assessing its inhabitants. Amber is also looking for love, caring for his mother and wanting official papers. His own happiness also needs assessing in this warm and absorbing documentary.
The film follows Amber and Guna Raj Kuikel, two Bhutanese bureaucrats, in their travels through the small Himalayan kingdom as census workers, measuring people's happiness levels. They work for the Center for Gross National Happiness, a government institution which is tasked with collecting data on the citizens' happiness. This data is then used to inform the constitutionally-mandated goal of increasing national happiness.
Along the way we meet Bhutan's everyday people, such as a bar singer, a wealthy farmer and his wives, …