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
- Jamal Udin TorabiJamal
- EnayatullahEnayat
- Imran ParachaTravel Agent (Pakistan)
- HiddayatullahEnayat's Brother (Pakistan)
- JamauEnayat's Father (Pakistan)
- Wakeel KhanEnayat's Uncle 1 (Pakistan)
- Lal ZarinEnayat's Uncle 2 (Pakistan)
- Ahsan RazaMoney Changer (Pakistan)
- Mirwais TorabiJamal's Older Brother (Pakistan)
- Abdul AhmadGroom (Pakistan)
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- Michael WinterbottomDirector
- Tony GrisoniWriter
- Marcel ZyskindDirector of Photography
- Dario MarianelliOriginal Music Composer
- Peter ChristelisEditor
- Andrew EatonProducer
- Behrooz HashemianProducer
- Anita OverlandProducer
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