SMS From Shangri-La

"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...
Cast
Crew
Dieter Fahrer
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Producer
Lisa Röösli
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Maya Schmid
Editor
Ugyen Wangdi
Director of Photography
Dodo Hunziker
Animation
Balthasar Jucker
Sound Director
Peter von Siebenthal
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Wege Wüthrich
Music
Gilbert Paeffgen
Music
Mark Oberholzer
Music
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