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This event includes our Filmmaking Challenge Awards, the short documentary Totem, followed by the feature documentary Agent of Happiness.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for! Announcement of the Best Short Film and Audience Award sponsored by Violet Pictures, plus announcement and screening of the winners of this year‘s Filmmaking Challenge.
Directed by
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
Genre
Documentary
Country
Bhutan/Hungary
Year
2024
Duration
94 mins
Rating
12A
How can you measure happiness?
The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that, and Amber is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are.
He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness.
We embark with Amber on a cross-country road trip meeting citizens from all walks of life, reminding us of the fragility and beauty of our own happiness. No matter where we live.
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Directed by
Macià Florit Campins
Genre
Documentary
Country
Spain
Year
2024
Duration
17 mins
Rating
PG
Today is the closing day of the quarry owned by Toni, the last stone-cutter left on the island of Menorca. Laetitia is a sculptor committed to saving the quarry from turning into a landfill. Together they embark on a journey to the heart of the sandstone, eroded and reborn as a new being: the totem.
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For more details about the films and the festival, visit the Folkestone Documentary Festival website:
