Our culture is obsessed with quantifying goals and scorekeeping, where wellness is measured by a wrist device tracking steps and mindfulness comes via a spendy subscription, yet the film, Wisdom of Happiness, feels like a deep exhale. This quietly powerful new documentary, centered on an intimate encounter with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, offers a rare antidote to the burnout of modern life. It doesn’t lecture but invites you into a luminous, quietly revolutionary true story about a remarkable man that reminds us that the path to joy begins in a more profound connection to the world around us. Let its message slow you down. At 90 years old, the Dalai Lama is damned near spry; he has outlasted empires, witnessed wars, and watched humanity invent a thousand new ways to be distracted. Yet he remains disarmingly joyful. Wisdom of Happiness captures that paradox with grace and humor. It’s not a biography, nor a sermon, but rather a cinematic meditation on what it really means to be happy in a world that seems to have forgotten how.-AWFJ

“a self-help manual to face the uncertainties and challenges of the 21st century with optimism and hope”-Cinemania