What Happiness Is
What Happiness Is
2012, German. Directed by Harald Friedl.
Bhutan, long isolated, wants to open itself up to the world without succumbing to materialism. It wants to modernize without selling its soul. The benchmark for this development is "Gross National Happiness." In a project unique worldwide, officials from the Ministry of Happiness are traveling for eight months to determine happiness in the country using thick questionnaires. A road movie to the most distant of all goals: The film offers insight into a country that has until now been largely inaccessible to film footage.
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- 21 December 2012
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- Bhutan, Austria
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What Happiness Is isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 December 2012. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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What Happiness Is (2012) was directed by Harald Friedl.