Well, we do know who the Dalai Lama is, and he kicks off the 18th International Buddhist Film Festival at Smith Rafael Film Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 9, as the star of the documentary “The Last Dalai Lama?”

The seven-program festival runs closes at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11, with “Hema, Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait,” a feature by Tibetan Buddhist lama Khyentse Norbu (“The Cup,” “Travellers and Magicians”) that takes you into the intriguing world of rural Bhutan.

“My Buddha Is Punk” (1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11) is the punk documentary, paired in the program with another Myanmar-themed documentary “A Thousand Mothers,” Kim Shelton’s peek into a Buddhist nunnery. Also Sunday: German director Doris Dorrie’s Japan-set “Fukushima, Mon Amour.”

— G. Allen Johnson

International Buddhist Film Festival: Friday-Sunday, June 9-11. $12. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. (415) 454-1222. www.cafilm.org