{"id":142005,"date":"2025-01-08T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=142005"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:43:37","slug":"kumus-new-documentary-season-opens-with-a-film-on-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/kumus-new-documentary-season-opens-with-a-film-on-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumu\u2019s new documentary season opens with a film on happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Kumu documentary film series kicks off its new season with a thought-provoking film about the pursuit of happiness. The screening on Wednesday, January 8, at 6 pm. in the Kumu auditorium will be introduced by composer<b> Sven Gr\u00fcnberg<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The opening film,<i> Agent of Happiness<\/i>, explores Bhutan\u2019s unique approach to measuring contentment through a happiness index, prioritising personal well-being over economic output. The film follows two surveyors as they go door-to-door, asking ordinary Bhutanese citizens about their happiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Directed by <b>Arun Bhattarai<\/b> and <b>Dorottya Zurb\u00f3<\/b>, this humorous yet insightful documentary provides a rare glimpse into Bhutanese life and raises questions about what it takes to be happy. Having been well-received at numerous festivals, it was also a hit at the P\u00d6FF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Throughout January and February, the series will feature eight documentaries, including <i>Riefenstahl<\/i> by German director <b>Andres Veiel<\/b>, <i>Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf<\/i> by <b>Thomas Piper<\/b>, and <i>Lewerentz\u2019s Divine Darkness <\/i>by <b>Sven Blume<\/b>. The season concludes on February 26 with <i>Life, Assembled<\/i> by <b>\u00c9lodie Degavre<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Admission to all screenings in the series is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">More information is available on <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kumu.ekm.ee\/en\/kumu-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">KUMU\u2019s website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Kumu documentary film series kicks off its new season with a thought-provoking film about the pursuit of happiness. &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":142006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[13290,24172,24173,24174,24175,24176,24177],"class_list":["post-142005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-poff-3","tag-andres-veiel","tag-arun-bhattarai","tag-sven-grunberg","tag-dorottya-zurbo","tag-agent-of-happiness","tag-kumu-documentary"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142011,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142005\/revisions\/142011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}