Five-year-old Hopakuli can’t really remember his life outside the Buddhist monastery. When he was an infant his mother entrusted him and his older brother Chorten to the care of monks living in southern Nepal because, as for many other boys from humble origins, this was the only chance to get an education. In her observational, contemplative documentary Yuqi Kang overturns the romantic notion of what Buddhists are: they’re not merely self-possessed adults, but also mischievous little scamps. Despite the assumption that only strict discipline is taught behind the monastery walls, the gifted, keen-eyed director demonstrates in her debut that these boys, like all children, have bags of energy and hanker after adventure.