In This World

"The journey to freedom has no borders."

Mar 28 2003 R 1h 28m
Drama

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.

Plot

In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families poses a terrible challenge to the boys.

Written by

Tony Grisoni

Directed by

Michael Winterbottom

Cast

Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

BBC

Languages

Türkçe, English, Deutsch

Awards

Won 1 BAFTA Award7 wins & 8 nominations total

Trailers
In This World (2002) trailer
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4,474
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
75
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