In This World

Winner of the Golden Berlin Bear and the BAFTA for Best Film not in the English Language, Michael Winterbottom's 2002 feature centres on a refugee family's journey to reach more peaceful lands.

The story 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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