A Fateful, True-Life Trek

Some 53,000 refugees are crammed into the Shamshatoo Afghan Refugee Camp in northwest Pakistan. Jamal (Jamal Udin Torabi) and his pal Enayat (Enayatullah) want to reduce that number by two. The teens' plan is to reach London, where Enayat has an uncle, by any means necessary: guile, smugglers, bribes. That border guard has a suspicious lookgive him your Walkman.

In This World is a road moviea Silk Road movie. It is also a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction. Torabi is an actual Afghan migr; he and Enayatullah more or less play themselves on their westward adventure. Director...

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