KineDok + UNICEF presents: Agents of Happiness + talk about Bhutan

Schedule:

18:00 | Introduction and talk about Bhutan with Pavla Gomba, Executive Director of UNICEF, and Darina Jíchová from UNICEF’s communications department. The discussion will be accompanied by a presentation from UNICEF’s field visit to Bhutan, with the participation of Lama Lopon Kinley Penjor (in Czech)

19:00 | Film screening: Agents of Happiness (original version with English subtitles)

The event will also feature a special guest – Lama Lopon Kinley Penjora.

Admission is free, but you need to reserve your seat in advance on this link.

Amber is one of 75 agents who took on the mission to measure Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness, traveling across the country to meet people from all walks of life. He and his partner survey them with over a hundred questions in nine categories. Director Dorottya Zurbó showcases the sprawling beauty of the Bhutanese landscape alongside the everyday realities of various Bhutanese people. Meanwhile, Amber is on his personal journey for happiness, namely through his search for marriage in the little spare time he has juggling his work and caretaking of his mother. The difficulties of distilling happiness into a single cohesive form are left for the viewers to contemplate.