By Marjorie Gorospe
INQUIRER.net

ADVOCATING children’s rights and mainstreaming classical music is not that easy.

Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil, however, has done just that through her film “Boses.”

Boses is a story of a battered child, Onyok. Abused by his own father, he later finds solace in a shelter. Onyok also learns the violin through his “wounded” mentor.

The film is a story of friendship between two wounded people: one physically after being beaten up by his father and the other wounded due to the passing of a loved one.

The film’s music – mostly coming from the violin — sets the tone of story.

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