Desc: Brothers in the Buddha: Directed by Beth Wishart Mackenzie. Brothers in the Buddha features, Michael, a seventeen year old Vietnamese Canadian youth who has taken up the discipline of a monastic at a monastery in the heart of the Canadian city of Edmonton. Michael wears the tunic of a monastic, but he does not live a cloistered life; Michael is fully engaged in the modern world and attends high school with other youth his age. Brothers in the Buddha examines the personal life and challenge undertaken by this young Canadian, both in the monastery and in the world around him. We observe Michael as an adolescent seeking to define his identity, no different than other adolescents, and we come to know him not as an unapproachable 'novelty', but as a friend and neighbor.