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Barbara Miller & Philip Delaquis
CH 2024 90'
⚬ Human Interest
WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a profound, new cinematic exploration of the innermost world of the Dalai Lama, perfectly attuned to our times. In an intimate heart-to-heart, the world’s greatest ambassador of compassion invites everyone along for a journey to the source of happiness.
At the pinnacle of nine exceptionally challenging decades in the world spotlight that began at the age of four, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with contemporary values of our globalized society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse. The first Nobel Peace Laureate to be recognized for an early call to preserve our planet shows us that is possible to build a healthier, happier world for all livings being and that the tools necessary to do so are, in fact, already in the palms of our hands.
Thanks to his expansive mind and disarming wit, the Dalai Lama’s incredibly complex path to a healthy, happy life is finely distilled and inspires us to see how simple it could be to build to a peaceful, prosperous society for all to thrive. While happiness is born in each of us, only the cultivation of unconditional compassion for one another will transform the world.
In what is likely to be the Dalai Lama’s last appearance in a film, the extraordinary collaboration between Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis, Manuel Bauer, Oren Moverman and Richard Gere creates a remarkable and timely offering to viewers. The filmmakers weave captivating access with contemplative visuals and never-before-seen archival film to take viewers on a generous meditative climb- from the base of suffering to the peak of human intelligence where the view is simply transformational.
WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is an unforgettable, meditative experience for the 21st Century that not only unlocks a door to genuine, lasting happiness but reveals that each and every one of Earth’s 8 billion beings holds their very own key to it in the palm of their hand.
Directors | Barbara Miller & Philip Delaquis |
Producer | Philip Delaquis |
Executive Producers | Richard Gere, Oren Moverman, Walo Kamm, Tashi Albertini-Kaiser, Tobias Asch, Hanspeter Maurer-Adotsang, Monlam Maurer-Adotsang |
Production Company | Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke |
Co-Production Company | Mons Veneris Films |
Cinematography | Manuel Bauer |
Editors | Isai Oswald, Mike Selemon |
Music | Ariel Marx |
Sound | Dieter Meyer, Julian Joseph, Stephan Konken |
Zurich FF 2024 | |
Woodstock FF 2024 | |
Dharamshala FF 2024 | |
DocPoint Helsinki 2025 |
| Runtime | 90' |
| Production Countries | Switzerland |
| Spoken Langauges | English |
Barbara Miller is an award-winning independent documentary Director and since 2017 the President of the Swiss Directors Guild and Screenwriters Association. She has a background
as a Lawyer and has been working in the film industry since 2000, starting by working on the Oscar-nominated documentary WAR PHOTOGRAPHER by Christian Frei.
Since 2001 she directed over twenty acclaimed documentaries for Swiss National Television and the big screen, ranging from the ANTI-GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEX IN THE INTERNET and THE CLITORIS. Barbara Miller also directed a variety of human-rights documentaries, helping to raise the voices of the poorest in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Kosovo, Lebanon and India.
Her award-winning feature-length documentary FORBIDDEN VOICES was show at over 70 festivals worldwide. Her latest prizewinning documentary #FEMALE PLEASURE was a huge
theatrical success, 2018 & 2019 the most successful documentary in Switzerland and in 2019 the most successful Swiss documentary worldwide and toured several years as a crowed-pleaser around the globe.
Philip Delaquis, Master of Science, from Spiez, studied economics and media science. Having worked as a journalist and producer for Swiss television, he is now an independent film producer with his Zurich-based companies Das Kollektiv and Mons Veneris Films. Philip Delaquis is responsible for successful international cinematic productions such as the award- winning feature film BRUNO MANSER, crowd favorites such as #FEMALE PLEASURE, GURU, YALOM’s CURE, or DÜRRENMATT, and now WISDOM OF HAPPINESS. He is a member of the Swiss and European Film Academies.
