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.

Release Date

March 28, 2003

Status

Released

Original Title

In This World

Runtime

1h 28min

Budget

Revenue

Language

German, English, Turkish, Persian

Production Companies

BBC