In This World (2002) is a British docudrama directed by Michael Winterbottom.
The film follows two Afghani men as they travel overland from the Peshawar, Pakistan refugee camp to sanctuary in London.
Jamal Udin Torabi plays Jamal, an adolescent. Enayatullah portrays Enayat, who is somewhat older. Both of them are brave, intelligent, and resourceful. However, they have to travel 3,700 miles through dangerous locations. Each stop is hazardous. They face discovery or worse at every turn.
Both actors are non-professionals who appeared in this film only. The situations they encounter were collected by director Winterbotton from various refugees who had endured those events. Most of the dialog was unscripted. The actors were told to talk to each other as they would do in real life.
This movie would probably work better on the large screen, because of the vastness of some of the lands through which the two travel. However, it worked well enough on the small screen.
In This World has a pretty good IMDb rating of 7.3. I thought it was even better than that, and rated it 9.
The film follows two Afghani men as they travel overland from the Peshawar, Pakistan refugee camp to sanctuary in London.
Jamal Udin Torabi plays Jamal, an adolescent. Enayatullah portrays Enayat, who is somewhat older. Both of them are brave, intelligent, and resourceful. However, they have to travel 3,700 miles through dangerous locations. Each stop is hazardous. They face discovery or worse at every turn.
Both actors are non-professionals who appeared in this film only. The situations they encounter were collected by director Winterbotton from various refugees who had endured those events. Most of the dialog was unscripted. The actors were told to talk to each other as they would do in real life.
This movie would probably work better on the large screen, because of the vastness of some of the lands through which the two travel. However, it worked well enough on the small screen.
In This World has a pretty good IMDb rating of 7.3. I thought it was even better than that, and rated it 9.