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UNITED KINGDOM · 2002

In This World

Michael Winterbottom
refugee crisis human trafficking migration survival Afghanistan
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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

Year2002
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorMichael Winterbottom
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