Though not a documentary, Michael Winterbottom's searing drama uses a highly realistic technique to explore an all-too-real problem: The plight of refugees who risk their savings and, often, their lives seeking asylum in the West. Sixteen-year-old Jamal (Jamal Udin Torabi) and his older cousin, Enayat (Enayatullah), are just two of the approximately 53,000 Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan's camps and cities, displaced when their families fled first the Soviet invasion of 1979, then the U.S. bombing in 2001. Jamal and Enayat's uncle, Wakeel (Wakeel Kahn), knows there's no future for his nephews in Pakistan — Enayat works at the family's fruit stall in Peshawar w...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins