SMS From Shangri-La
2010
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...
Crew
- Director Dieter Fahrer
- Director Lisa Röösli
- Screenplay Dieter Fahrer
- Screenplay Lisa Röösli
- Director of Photography Ugyen Wangdi
- Director of Photography Dieter Fahrer
- Director of Photography Lisa Röösli
Crew
- Director — Dieter Fahrer
- Director — Lisa Röösli
- Screenplay — Dieter Fahrer
- Screenplay — Lisa Röösli
- Director of Photography — Ugyen Wangdi
- Director of Photography — Dieter Fahrer
- Director of Photography — Lisa Röösli
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