A documentary film by Nati Baratz
WINNER - Special Jury Award at 2009 Full Frame Festival
WINNER - Best Documentary Feature - 2009 RiverRun Film Festival
This documentary is best viewed in a theater with a full screen to present to its best advantage the beauty of Napal, of India, of the world from whenst the Lama of India preside.
This is a film that shows the selection process of the child who is deemed the reincarnation of the recently departed Lama: how the child is found, taken from its parents to live in a monestery, the care, and love afforded him by his diciple-in-charge, his "Big Uncle"
What fascinated me is the evidence of such intense unmitigated love of this selected child; the process involved in taking him from a rural, unsophisticated limited world into the highest eschelons of Buddhism.
I fell instantly in love with the Big Uncle and you will too even though the religion makes no sense to me, a western woman raised in an atheist home
but then this interaction of cultures is confronted by us all almost daily when we call American Express, or Sprint or any of the American based companies in search of help. It is to India we are often directed to get assistance with our "sophisticated" way of life.
A beautiful, rich documentary to be cherished.
Linda Z
WBAI WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE
Film opens in New York at Film Forum on Wednesday JUNE 3
National Release will follow in June / July
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