1031006
1031006

SMS From Shangri-La

2010-01-21 en
Documentary
"Gross national happiness is more important than gross national product", declares the King of Bhutan. Can happiness be decreed? We accompany seven Swiss musicians to this mountainous Himalayan country. Between concerts, we meet Bhutanese people in their daily lives, who tell us, as if in passing, what makes them happy. Are we capable of finding happiness elsewhere? Does the advantage of globalization lie precisely in the erasure of the elsewhere? The whole world is in the here and now, and distant horizons are always close to us, transported by SMS...

Director of Photography

Lisa Röösli

Director of Photography

Dieter Fahrer

Director

Dieter Fahrer

Producer

Dieter Fahrer

Screenplay

Dieter Fahrer

Editor

Maya Schmid

artfilm

Status

Released

Countries

  • Switzerland

Companies

  • Balzli & Fahrer Filmproduktion
  • SRG SSR
  • ARTE GEIE
  • SRF