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Line Of Control

Arrives on Digital In North

America October 6

Critically acclaimed adaptation of The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed follows

a successful international festival run

OUR BUREAU duction features cinematography by
Johan Holmqvist, editing by Jamie
Los Angeles, CA
Kirkpatrick, and an original score by
ulberry Films and Fabled Wayne Sharpe.
Frames announced the Line Of Control has received high-
MNorth American digital ly favorable reviews, with critics prais-
release of Line Of Control, written ing its performances and its intimate
and directed by Travis Hodgkins. Dis- portrayal of lives caught in conflict:
tributed by Vision Films, the film will • “Nikhil Singh Rai shines as The Boy.”
be available to rent or purchase be-
ginning October 6, 2026, on Amazon, — Alan Ng, Film Threat (8/10)
Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and • “Well-directed, written, and acted”
other major digital platforms across — Mark Lakatos, Take 2 Indie Re-
the United States and Canada. view

• “the film carries the burden of that
Adapted from Mirza Waheed’s landscape with surprising tender-
acclaimed novel The Collabo- ness.” — The Kashmir Times
rator, Line Of Control reaches • “a deeply affecting film” — Zenaira
Bakhsh, Outlook India (4/5)
North American audiences fol-
lowing a successful interna- The film’s festival run will con-
tional festival run that includ- clude with a screening at the
ed its world premiere at the Buffalo International Film Fes-
tival on Saturday, October 10,
San Diego International Film 2026, at 3:30 p.m. at North
Festival, a market screening Park Theatre in Buffalo, New
during the Cannes Film Festi- York. Writer and director Travis
val, and its Asia premiere at Hodgkins will attend.

the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival The original motion picture
in Mumbai. soundtrack, composed by two-time
Emmy Award nominee Wayne
Sharpe, is also available on iTunes,
Set in Kashmir in 1993, the film
follows a teenage boy whose closest Spotify, and other major music
streaming platforms. Released by
friends disappear amid the escalat- Air-Edel Records, the score combines
ing insurgency. Determined to dis- Indian instrumentation with con-
cover what happened to them, he is
forced by an Indian Army captain to temporary Western styles and elec-
tronic textures, extending the film’s
enter a valley of corpses and recov- emotional world beyond the screen.
er identification cards and weapons him, the boy must find a way to sur- Rai, Anastasia Jairath, and Serdar
from the dead. Each body could be vive without losing his conscience. Altan. Produced by Rashaana Shah For more information,
a friend. As the captain’s demands The film stars Rudi Dharmal- and Cristy Coors Beasley, the Mul- visit mulberry films website and follow
deepen and his village turns against ingam, Nitin Ganatra, Nikhil Singh berry Films and Fabled Frames pro- on Instagram.

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