Unmistaken Child // Unmistaken Child
( Israel, 2008, 102 min. )
Director: Nati Baratz
The year 2001 marked the death of Lama Konchog, one of the great contemporary Tibetan masters. The Dalai Lama gives Lama Konchog’s pupil, Tenzin Zopa, the task of locating his master’s incarnation. This ‘unmistaken child’ must be found within the next four years otherwise it will be too difficult to separate him from his parents. Tenzin Zopa became Lama Konchog’s pupil of his own volition at the age of seven. He spent 21 years living in close proximity with his master – until his death. His loneliness is compounded by the responsibility of his quest: to secretly find his master’s reincarnation in the body of a small boy who could be living anywhere in the world. His mission takes Tenzin to remote mountainous areas and to tiny villages where nothing seems to have changed in centuries. Tenzin travels by helicopter, by donkey and on foot. With the aid of astrologers, the interpretation of dreams and the advice of villagers he finally ascertains a boy who could be the one. 24th Haifa International Film Festival: Best Documentary 49th Krakow Film Festival: The Golden Horn Award
Film is screened in the Free Thought. Documentary cinema program
Screening shedule
– only for press
26 June
27 June
