In This World Page #2

Synopsis: In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families poses a terrible challenge to the boys.
Genre: Drama
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
75
R
Year:
2002
88 min
128 Views


l'm a good person?

If you have a visa to Iran...

you just go over there and queue.

If you don't, you come with me.

Behrooz, telephone!

Okay, l'm coming.

I speak Pashtu.

I need to contact Behrooz.

Can you speak English or Farsi?

I don't understand Pashtu.

We're waiting.

We don't know where you are.

Speak English.

Jamal, talk to this man in English.

So, is it your first

time leaving Pakistan, eh?

This is your first time?

Ah, you went to

Afghanistan once.

Okay.

Jamal, don't tell him everything.

Be careful.

- What did he say?

- He doesn't say...

- Sorry?

- He doesn't say anything.

But he said something.

He was just saying

that...'What is he asking?'

Oh, right.

You know, I build a new pad.

I'll show you later.

This is just too f***ing like

chicken. You know what I mean?

No.

Why do we have

to change our clothes?

I don't know.

He says we should.

What d'you say?

He said, 'Why are we

changing clothes'?

Ah, because you have to be like,

I mean, you know, I mean...

you have to go to Tehran,

you have to be like Iranian.

With these clothes you

attention everybody, so...

you have to change

your clothes.

- Okay.

- Look like Iranian.

Hey, Jamal, this is a f***ing

long time, man. You not coming?

Did you finish?

All right.

It's much better.

Okay.

They're your trousers?

Here is your coat. Okay, well,

you give me your cap, okay?

This is much better, okay?

And, your cap...

And this is sh*t.

Why does he want our clothes?

What did he say?

What did he say?

He is saying that

'Why is he getting his...

But, I mean, this is bloody f***ing

sh*t, you know what I mean?

We don't, we don't

need it anymore.

This, l'm gonna throw away,

and then we can go.

Abdullah?

Abdullah?

You put it in your bag, okay?

You put it in your bag.

Okay, it's about

ten thousand Rials per day, okay?

How much?

Ten thousand Rials.

You have to pay by yourself, okay?

You take care now.

Bye, bye, take care.

I don't trust him.

He's a fraud.

Why do we have to pay for the room?

We've already paid.

I don't know...

- One.

- One.

- Two.

- Two.

- Three.

- Three.

- Four.

- Four.

- Five.

- Five.

- Six.

- Six.

- Seven.

- Seven.

- Eight.

- Eight.

- Nine.

- Nine.

- Ten.

- Ten.

Right, Jamal, listen,

try not to talk...

with everybody on the bus, okay?

If they ask you...

what you do in Tehran,

you can say...

Can you repeat that

after me, okay?

What is he saying?

Don't be far from

me, Jamal.

Here they are.

Hey, he's my friend, okay?

He's gonna care about you.

And that's the telephone

of my colleague in Tehran. Okay?

You call him,

he's gonna take you.

Very comfortable seats.

Don't speak Pashtu, speak Farsi.

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Tony Grisoni

Tony Grisoni (born 28 October 1952) is a British screenwriter. He lives in London. His first feature film, Queen of Hearts, directed by Jon Amiel, won the Grand Prix at the 1990 Festival du Film de Paris. more…

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