
Some seemingly irresolvable issues take on a simple clarity when viewed through the eyes of children. In Biswajeet Bora's Assamese film Boomba Ride, screened in the Indian Cinema Now category at the 26th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), and in Prasun Chatterjee's Dostojee, screened in the World Cinema category, the filmmakers achieve this well using a set of untrained young actors who play the protagonists.