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SMS From Shangri-La

SMS From Shangri-La

20100m
Documentary

Status

Released

Release

2010

Runtime

0m

Storyline

"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...

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
Not available
Jan 21, 2010
Languages
DzongkhaEnglishGerman
Director
Dieter Fahrer
Lisa Röösli
Production
Balzli & Fahrer Filmproduktion
Balzli & Fahrer Filmproduktion
SRG SSR
SRG SSR
ARTE GEIE
ARTE GEIE
SRF
SRF
Production Countries
Switzerland

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