In This World

Name: In This World
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003-03-28
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Enayatullah, Mirwais Torabi, Hossain Baghaeian, Yaaghoob Nosraj Poor, Kerem Atabeyoğlu

The journey to freedom has no borders.

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Release Date

3/28/2003

Runtime

88 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

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.

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Released

Original Language

English

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A stark, hand-held chronicle of two Afghan cousins undertaking a nightmarish journey across continents toward asylum, shot with documentary urgency that strips away any sentimentality from their daily horrors. The film lives in the gap between survival and dignity, following real people through real danger without melodrama.