life Jamals application for refugee status. Before its  release however, the title was changed to "In This World". As  Michael Winterbottom describes on the DVD, the title came from a  line in the film where Jamal was translated as saying that a central  character was dead. Jamal informed Winterbottom, on seeing this,  that it was inaccurate. What he had actually said was that the man  was "no longer in this world". Hence the films title.