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SMS From Shangri-La

20100.0 / 100
Documentary

Overview

"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

Dieter Fahrer

Director

Dieter Fahrer

Dieter Fahrer

Producer

Peter von Siebenthal

Peter von Siebenthal

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Ugyen Wangdi

Ugyen Wangdi

Director of Photography

Maya Schmid

Maya Schmid

Editor

Dieter Fahrer

Dieter Fahrer

Screenplay

Wege Wüthrich

Wege Wüthrich

Music

Dieter Fahrer

Dieter Fahrer

Director of Photography

Gilbert Paeffgen

Gilbert Paeffgen

Music

Lisa Röösli

Lisa Röösli

Screenplay

Lisa Röösli

Lisa Röösli

Director

Lisa Röösli

Lisa Röösli

Director of Photography

Balthasar Jucker

Balthasar Jucker

Sound Director

Mark Oberholzer

Mark Oberholzer

Music

Dodo Hunziker

Dodo Hunziker

Animation