• Director(s)

    Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    12/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel

Film

Agent of Happiness

domestic abuse references

Two Bhutanese bureaucrats embark on a cross-country journey through the Himalayas in order to measure people's happiness levels in this moving documentary, which contains themes of domestic abuse, bereavement and loneliness.…

Two Bhutanese bureaucrats embark on a cross-country journey through the Himalayas in order to measure people's happiness levels in this moving documentary, which contains themes of domestic abuse, bereavement and loneliness.

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violence

language

sex

theme

threat and horror

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

  • Director(s)

    Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    12/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel

domestic abuse references
Classified Date:
15/07/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Dogwoof
violence
A teenage girl references how she has seen her father beat her mother with various implements in the past and has been forced to intervene to stop the abuse continuing. She also details how she has taken over the running of the house, to the detriment of her studies, and the caring of her younger sibling due to her parents' drinking problems and other health issues. A woman tearfully describes how she was very young when she met her polygamist husband and implies she felt forced to marry him. She recounts how he can be unpleasant towards her and his other wives at times.
language
Infrequent use of mild bad language ('ass') occurs.
sex
A polygamist brags about the number of children he has fathered and states that, had he not had an operation, he would have fathered many more. A bar singer dances around suggestively on stage whilst the audience cheer and clap. References are made to adultery.
theme
A transgender bar singer speaks movingly about her struggle to find her identity and how it has impacted her mental health. There are references to depression, cancer and death. A man describes his sadness that his wife did not live to see their children succeed.

  • Classified date

    15/07/2024

  • Language

    English