PL

2019

63 min

Finished

The Mirror

Lustro

Directing: Ernest Wencel

Synopsis

Ernest Wencel, film director, is leaving to Tek Chok Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, to make a documentary movie about Master – Disciple relationship in Tibetan Buddhism. However the key interview for this film, with Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche seems not to be possible. Very upset director decides to find his past teacher, Phakchok Rinpoche, with whom he broke relationship few years ago. With the time passing, the journey to find the past Guru, is becoming a journey into himself, and the film records his struggling with the difficult nature of the documentary as well as meeting his true self, with all his weaknesses and complexes.