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Director: Tom Vendetti
USA (2007)
Audio: Japanese
Subtitles: Japanese
57 min.
www.Bhutanfilm.com

Bhutan – Taking the Middle Path to Happiness is a documentary film featuring
the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and the government’s effort to bring ’Gross
National Happiness‘ to its people.

Imagine a country where happiness is the guiding principle of government.
Imagine a people who see all life as sacred and the source of their happiness,
a place with an abundance of clean and renewable energy, a nation committed
to preserving its culture. Imagine a kingdom where the king lives in a simple
wooden cottage and judges his progress by the country’s ’Gross National
Happiness‘. Where is this Shangri-La?

Bhutan. But can a place like Bhutan really exist? Can such ideals be realized?
Can this small, geographically isolated country, tucked away in the Himalayas,
truly protect its environment and culture as it opens its doors to the West?

The concept of taking ’the middle road‘ is one rooted in the Bhutanese view of
the world, anchored in Tantric Buddhism and animistic Bon. Buddha shared a
simple message: happiness lies in the middle path. Neither overindulging in the
world’s pleasures nor rejecting the world’s goodness can lead to enlightenment.
Happiness can only be found by taking the middle path – the path that balances
the needs with the powerful spirits of nature.

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness

*Mr. John Wehrheim will do "Q&A" for his fim at the C section on Nov. 2.!