In This World
“The journey to freedom has no borders.”
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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Cast
30 people
Michael Winterbottom Director · Tony Grisoni Writer Dario Marianelli Composer
United States release September 19, 2003 · Produced in United Kingdom · Languages English, German, Persian, Turkish
Production
BBC
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German · Persian · Turkish
Release dates
United Kingdom · November 17, 2002
Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
United States · September 19, 2003
Limited theatrical
France
October 29, 2003 · Theatrical
Germany
September 18, 2003 · Theatrical
South Korea
July 8, 2005 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
March 28, 2003 · Theatrical
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