Unmistaken Child

For a movie that deals with transmigration, Unmistaken Child is as linear a documentary as one is likely to find. The first half deals with the search for a reincarnated soul, and the second half focuses on the youngster once they've found him.
Tenzin Zopa is the devotee of Lama Konchog a Tibetan master who passes at a ripe age. We witness Konchog's cremation and then Zopa and his associates sift the ashes looking for clues, because that's what you do when you want to trace someone in their next life. While the film seems to narrow the time spent searching in reality it was nearly four years.
Unmistaken Child never wavers from its sincerity and offers many breathtaking views of the mountains surrounding Zopa and his quest. Adherents of Buddhism and comparative religion will find the most to savor here, but there's just not that much meat on the bone for the general viewer.
Even when the reincarnated master is found he is after all a young boy who cries when he gets a haircut. It seems we all go kicking and screaming even when we're being rewarded.