The premiere of a controversial film in Bradford later this month has already attracted calls on a website for it to be banned.

Camp Xray: Ghosts of Guantanamo is the story of five British Muslims captured in Afghanistan who are taken to the American-run prison camp on the Caribbean island of Cuba where they suffer torture and interrogation.

Later this month the film is to get its first showing at Bradford's Bite The Mango film festival run by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

But already it has provoked a volatile debate on the festival website with calls for the shocking film to be banned. Some of the e-mail comments have since been removed from the site.

All Bradford councillors have been invited to the premiere at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television on Saturday, September 25.

The film, produced by London-based Ghetto Vision Motion Pictures, was shot in Pakistan, Cuba and the UK.

Costing $2 million it was financed by the Ethnic Film Foundation along with money from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Manish Patel, who wrote, produced and directed Camp Xray, said he feared there was mounting pressure to stop the film being shown.

"There have been several attempts to try and get the film banned and I find it irresponsible to connect it with the current situation in Iraq," said Mr Patel.

"One guy from Texas said on the website that if someone militant saw the film and there were hostages being held it could influence their captors. I felt flattened by that.

"This is not an anti-American film, it's not an anti-Islamic film, it's anti-war. We have made it predominantly for Bradford because the city has the biggest Muslim community in Europe."

Bradford's deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Rangzeb Choudhary confirmed that he had been invited to the premiere.

"I have no problem with it," aid Coun Choudhary. "There's a great deal of interest among many people about what's happening in Camp Xray. The things you see on TV are horrific.

"It's in the public interest. People have a right to produce films of different sorts."

A spokesman for the museum said Camp Xray had already created huge interest, although there had been no official calls for the film to be banned.

"It's generated a lot of lively debate on the web forum and that's what forums are for," said the spokesman.

"Bite The Mango is committed to providing a platform for new and up and coming talent. Being dedicated to world cinema it will show subject matter which is uncomfortable from a Western point of view."

Azmat Begg, the father of Moazzam Begg, the British detainee at Guantanamo Bay, is travelling to Bradford to speak about his son's plight at the launch

Veteran actress and political activist Vanessa Redgrave, chairman of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission, is also expect