In This World
2002 · 88 min · Director: Michael Winterbottom
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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.
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Cast
Enayat's Brother (Pakistan)
Enayat's Father (Pakistan)
Enayat's Uncle 1 (Pakistan)
Enayat's Uncle 2 (Pakistan)
Money Changer (Pakistan)
Jamal's Older Brother (Pakistan)
Groom (Pakistan)
Jamal's Younger Brother (Pakistan)
Driver 1 (Pakistan)
Driver 2 (Pakistan)
Soldier Shaheen (Pakistan)
Farid (Pakistan)
Behrooz (Iran)
Kurdish Father (Iran)
Kurdish Mother (Iran)
Kurdish Baby (Iran)
Kurdish Father (Iran)
Details
- Directed by
- Michael Winterbottom
- Written by
- Tony Grisoni
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2002
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Genres
- Drama
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Fear
- Data updated
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