'Unmistaken Child' follows a Tibetan monk as he searches for the reincarnation of his master.
By SHIRA TEGERTibetan Monk 88 248(photo credit: Courtesy)Unmistaken Child, a documentary by Israeli director Nati Baratz, is going to compete at the Berlin Film Festival in the "Panorama" section. The inclusion in the festival was announced on Wednesday, two months after Berlin's director saw the film at the Toronto Film Festival.
Unmistaken Child (Hagilgul, in Hebrew) had its Israeli premiere at the Haifa Film Festival, where it won the prize for best documentary.
The film follows the monk Tenzin Zopa as he searches for the reincarnation of his Tibetan master, Lama Konchog - on the instructions of the Dalai Lama. Konchog was one of the greatest Tibetan masters of the 20th century. Baratz studied film at Tel Aviv University; he directed the short documentaries Tel Aviv-Kyrgyzstan and Noches for Channel 2. This is his first feature-length movie.
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