A Small Indian Coming-of-Age Film With Larger Politics

A political exploration gift-wrapped in a coming-of-age drama, Lakshmipriya Devi‘s debut feature “Boong” follows its lively titular schoolboy on an adventure along India’s militarized eastern border. In search of his missing father, Boong (a firecracker Gugun Kipgen) helps paint a portrait of modern Manipur, the isolated Indian state neighboring Myanmar, at a time when violent…