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'In This World' - Michael Winterbottom's 2002
Sunday 21 January 2018, 07:30pm
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 'In This World': a showing of Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film in the Old School Community Centre at 7.30pm, organised by South Brent Refugee Support Network.

 

The film follows two Afghan teenagers as they escape from the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Pakistan: travelling through Iran, Turkey, Italy and France, Jamal and his cousin embark on a desperate journey to

freedom.

 

It is styled as a fictional documentary with non-professional leads, and uses real locations (including the Sangatte camp) and a predominantly improvised script. It challenges the neat distinction between economic

migrants and political refugees and at the very least, raises interesting questions.