Buddha's Lost Children is a 2006 documentary

Documentary film

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 film

Film

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 by Dutch director Mark Verkerk. The feature film tells the story of Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto, a Buddhist monk who has dedicated his life to orphan

Orphan

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ed children in the Golden Triangle

Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)

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 area of Thailand

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. The film opened in Dutch

Netherlands

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 cinema

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s in September 2006.

Awards

The film won the International Documentary Grand Jury Prize (2006) at the Los Angeles AFI Festhttp://www.afi.com/onscreen/AFIFEST/2006/, the Jury Award for Documentary (2007) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

Newport Beach Film Festival

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http://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com/, the Best Global Insight Film (2007) at the Jackson Hole Film Festivalhttp://www.jacksonholefilmfestival.org/, the David L. Wolper Best Documentary Award (2007) at the Napa Sonoma Valley Film Festivalhttp://www.winecountryfilmfest.com/index.asp, the City of Rome Award (2006) at the Asiaticafilmmedialehttp://www.asiaticafilmmediale.it/ in Rome, the Crystal Film

Crystal Film

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 (2006) at the Netherlands Film Festival

Netherlands Film Festival

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, and the Silver Dove (2006) at the Leipzig DOK Festivalhttp://www.dokfestival-leipzig.de/homepage/de/index.html.