‘Unmistaken Child’

After the toddler is deemed a reincarnated lama, his father wonders aloud if he will ever see him once he’s taken to a monastery.

A monk tells the father, as the lama totters around, gripping a teddy bear, that his son has many students around the world.

Tears form in his mother’s eyes after she consents to give up her son, who has gone from a squealing, runny-nosed kid to a revered, runny-nosed figure overnight.

It’s a scene that encapsulates all the tones of the documentary “Unmistaken Child”: adorable, moving, bewildering, sad and, ultimately, peaceful.

The film follows the four-year quest for the reincarnation of a world-renowned Tibetan master who died in 2001. The master’s charming disciple, Tenzin Zopa, scours villages for evidence of rebirth.

When he makes a special connection with one particular child, Tenzin initiates a process that will take both him and the possible reincarnation of his master all the way to the Dalai Lama for confirmation.