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THE COLLABORATOR

By Travis HODGKINS

True Story - Completed 2024

In the early 1990s, teenage boys are disappearing, crossing into Pakistan to join the jihadi movement. The “Boy” is forced to collaborate with the army to collect the IDs of the thousands of corpses in the no man's land, fearing each day that he will find his friends lying amongst the dead.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- True Story, Book adaptation, First film
- Countries
- GEORGIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 122 mn
- Director(s)
- Travis HODGKINS
- Writer(s)
- Travis HODGKINS
- Cast
- Rudi DHARMALINGAM, Nitin GANATRA, Vikram KAPADIA
- Producer(s)
- Rashaana SHAH (MULBERRY FILMS LLC), Cristy COORS BEASLEY (Fabled Frames)
- Synopsis
- THE COLLABORATOR is set in Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam, close to the Pakistan border. Four teenage boys, who used to spend their afternoons playing cricket, or singing ballads down by the river, have disappeared one by one to cross the border never to be seen or heard from again. Only one of their friends, the son of the village Headman, is left behind.
  The families in the village begin to flee, to search for a place of safety, but the Headman will not allow his family to leave. And, while the Headman watches his dreams give way beneath the growing violence, his son, under the brutal, drunken gaze of the Indian army captain, is forced to collaborate and go into the valley to count the corpses, fearing each day, that he will discover one of his friends lying among the dead.