The festival will screen three Bodo films Hagra mayao Jinahari (Rape in the Virgin Forest), directed by Jwangdao Bodosa, Dufangin-solo, directed by Pinky Brahma Choudhury and Sayaram Gojoula, directed by Phaylaw Kamaleswar. Hagramayao Jinahari has already attracted both national and international acclaim. It has brought a lot of recognition for Bodosa, the leading Bodo filmmaker today.

"We are putting up eight films from Assam, of which three are in Bodo language and one in Karbi," said Bobbeeta Sharma, chairperson of Assam Film Finance & Development Corporation (AFFDC), which is organising the festival in collaboration with Nandan, Kolkata and others.

"Assamese films have already made its mark over the years. But people outside the state have hardly heard of films being made in Bodo or Karbi," said Sharma. She said the Corporation was trying its best to carry the films outside the state to provide maximum exposure.

Last year, the AFFDC took a package of films from the state to New Delhi which evoked a lot of response from critics and cinegoers. The festival will also screen Wosobipo directed by Gautam Bora made in Karbi, another tribal language of Assam. The film had fetched its music director Sher Choudhury the "best music director" award in 1998.