{"id":389370,"date":"2025-11-19T06:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389370\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:58:16","slug":"richard-gere-oren-moverman-on-dalai-lama-film-wisdom-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389370\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Gere & Oren Moverman On Dalai Lama Film ‘Wisdom Of Happiness’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHappiness is still possible, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, the Dalai Lama<\/a> asserts in the new documentary\u00a0Wisdom of Happiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong those who affirm that hopeful message is Richard Gere<\/a>, one of the film\u2019s executive producers, who has known the Tibetan spiritual leader for decades. Gere and fellow executive producer Oren Moverman<\/a> join the latest episode of Deadline\u2019s Doc Talk<\/a> podcast to discuss the documentary and what they\u2019ve learned from the Dalai Lama \u2013 the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is described at age 90 as one of the world\u2019s greatest living thinkers.<\/p>\n

\n\tGere, who began practicing Buddhism in the late 1970s, tells us why he sees the film as \u201ca bit of a corrective.\u201d He sees the Dalai Lama as teaching that humans are basically kind, loving and compassionate, which may come as particularly comforting in a contemporary moment characterized by intense political polarization and numerous global conflicts.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary directed by Barbara Miller and Philip Delaquis premiered at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland and has played at festivals around the world including the Locarno Film Festival in southern Switzerland, the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in Brazil, DocPoint \u2013 Helsinki Documentary Film Festival in Finland, and the Dharamshala International Film Festival in India.<\/p>\n

\n\tGere also explains how the directors\u2019 decision to borrow a technique pioneered by filmmaker Errol Morris helped make\u00a0Wisdom of Happiness\u00a0\u201ccompletely unique.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoverman, the Oscar-nominated writer of\u00a0The Messenger, jokes that he has no spiritual life but was brought to tears listening to the Dalai Lama\u2019s words. He tells Doc Talk the film contains never-before-seen footage of the Dalai Lama in India, where he has lived in exile since 1959 when China crushed an attempted rebellion by Tibetans.<\/p>\n

\n\tDoc Talk co-host John Ridley calls the film \u201cdeeply profound\u201d and \u201cnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s on the new episode of Doc Talk co-hosted by Oscar winner Ridley (12 Years a Slave,\u00a0Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline\u2019s senior documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley\u2019s N\u014d Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tListen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0iHeart<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happiness is still possible, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, the Dalai Lama asserts in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[122748,28895,117321,117322,171,53,185437,108584,67,132,68,185438],"class_list":{"0":"post-389370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-abramorama","9":"tag-dalai-lama","10":"tag-doc-talk","11":"tag-doc-talk-podcast","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-oren-moverman","15":"tag-richard-gere","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wisdom-of-happiness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115575069765796950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}