Torn straight from the headlines Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan Jamal (impressive newcomer Jamal Udin Torabi)and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah)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 refugee... centre and ultimately asylum in London. Re-affirming his status as one of Britain's most accomplished and diverse film making talents Winterbottom and his hugely gifted writer Tony Grisoni have struck a poignant searing and remarkable balance between the fictional and documentary elements of the narrative to perceptively and indeed objectively examine the plight of Jamal and the countless thousands like him. Digitally shot to fully explore and incorporate the full possibilities of the medium the timely In This World is an exciting at times harrowing and undeniably remarkable achievement that deservedly bought it's maker the coveted Golden Bear Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival. [show more]
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Michael Winterbottom's harrowing look at the extent refugees will go to to fiind a safe haven from their own country's brutal regimes. Afghan orphan, Jamal (Jamal Udin Torabi) and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah) embark on a hazardous journey to London from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Having travelled overland to Turkey, they then have join other refugees in a shipping container along to cross the sea to Italy and then continue overland to London. Winterbottom used digital video, untrained actors and improvised dialogue to give the film a true feeling of how dangerous and how desperate the journey to safety is.
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