Buddha's Lost Children |
||
 |
|
|
 |
||||
Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who - armed only with his faith and skills and master boxer skills - wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children, fight drug abuse, and preserve a vanishing way of life. |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
"This is classical documentary filmmaking of a high order." AT THE MOVIES "Buddha's Lost Children will challenge your views on childhood, parenting, schooling, spirituality, and what we have the power to do, as individuals, to support the children in our struggling communities. I left the film inspired and humbled." DOMINIC CAPPELLO, AUTHOR OF TEN TALKS ABOUT VIOLENCE "A beautiful and uplifting film that leaves us with a genuine sense of harmony, Buddha's Lost Children is richly affecting on many levels." URBAN CINEFILE "This excellent documentary, filmed in the wilds of northern Thailand, tells of an extraordinary Buddhist monk, charismatic tattooed ex-boxer Khru Bah, who rescues abandoned children and teaches them how to pray, farm, and kickbox Thai-style. The boys then join their master on his patrols across hundreds of square kilometers of rugged jungle in Thailand’s notorious Golden Triangle, an epicenter of the opium trade, which Khru Bah tries to combat. Filmmaker Mark Verkerk follows this natural performer, other members of his monastery, and the wounded he helps over a period of several months. These last include a sick pony, a boy with bad eczema, another kid who barely speaks, and a very little child who can barely walk. Khru Bah helps them all in one of the most inspiring documentaries on record. He even helps an adult villager who calls him crazy and has to be put in a headlock. This is one literally kickass Buddhist monk." SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY |
||||||
Buddha's Lost Children Sunday, March 2 Director: Country of Origin: Country of Focus: Length: |
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|