Summaries

A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.

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.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Enayat and Jamal are Afghan refugees who live in a camp in Peshawar and try to escape to Great Britain by the help of people smugglers. Their dangerous journey leads them along the "silk road" through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey towards London.—Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • death
  • actual animal killed
  • cobbler the shoemaker
  • ox slaughter
  • watching a gay porn video
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Mar 27, 2003
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English Persian Turkish Pashtu
Filming locations UK
Production companies UK Film Council The Film Consortium The Works

Box office

Budget $75000
Gross US & Canada $84299
Opening weekend US & Canada $24602
Gross worldwide $322097

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 28m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

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