Happy

Happy (2012) is a 75-minute documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roko Belic. The film travels to 14 countries — a rickshaw driver in Kolkata, a Cajun fisherman, a Danish co-housing commune, the Dalai Lama — threading their stories together with the latest findings from positive psychology.

Researchers including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ed Diener, and Daniel Gilbert appear throughout, each making the same uncomfortable point: past a basic income floor, more money stops mattering. What does matter turns out to be simpler and harder to manufacture than most people expect. Tightly made and genuinely curious rather than preachy — the film earns its conclusions. Stream Happy (2012) on iFILM.