The Collaborator, based on Mirza Waheed’s critically acclaimed novel, is having its first UK screening at the Kiln Theatre on Friday 2nd May. It will be part of the UK Asian Film Festival, the world’s longest running South Asian film festival.

The Collaborator is a coming-of-age story about a boy growing up during the height of the war over Kashmir. In the early 1990s, young men in villages all over Kashmir are disappearing. Fearing that they are being recruited to become freedom fighters in the war to free Kashmir from India, the Indian army occupies the villages. The boy is forced by an Indian army officer to perform a grim task, to go into the valley where the war is being fought and collect ID cards from the dead, and the boy fears each day that he will find one of his missing friends lying amongst the dead.

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