''Buddha's Lost Children'' is a 2006

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director Mark Verkerk. The feature film tells the story of Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto, a

Buddhist Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

monk who has dedicated his life to

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ed children in the

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area of

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. The film opened in

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s in September 2006.

Awards

The film won the International Documentary Grand Jury Prize (2006) at the Los Angeles AFI Fest, the Jury Award for Documentary (2007) at the

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, the Best Global Insight Film (2007) at the Jackson Hole Film Festival , the David L. Wolper Best Documentary Award (2007) at the Napa Sonoma Valley Film Festival , the City of Rome Award (2006) at the Asiaticafilmmediale in Rome, the Crystal Film (2006) at the

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, and the Silver Dove (2006) at the

Dok Leipzig DOK Leipzig is a documentary film festival that takes place every October in Leipzig, Germany. It is an international film festival for documentary and animated film founded in 1955 under the name "1st All-German Leipzig Festival of Cultural an ...

References

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