In This World

Torn straight from the headlines Michael Winterbottoms 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 northwest Pakistan Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy Kurdishcontrolled 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