Gentle comfort is something the entire world is in need of these days, and “Frybread Face and Me” delivers that in abundance.

The film’s title characters are young cousins, Dawn (Charley Hogan), a Navajo girl whose family has nicknamed her “Frybread Face,” and Benny (Keir Tallman), a California boy of mixed Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo heritage. Over the course of a few months spent together with their loving grandmother (Sarah H. Natani) on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, the two repeatedly hear how beautiful, worthy and cherished they are.

The words are a balm for both Dawn and Benny, who feel discarded, if temporarily, by their respective parents — and for the audience.

At first, neither child, played with natural charm under writer-director Billy Luther’s guidance, is happy to be staying on Grandma Lorraine’s sheep ranch for the summer in 1990. Eleven-year-old Benny, a die-hard Fleetwood Mac fan from San Diego, is crushed to miss his favorite band in concert and be away from home in an unfamiliar rural setting where electricity and running water are in short supply.