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FLEE

By Jonas POHER RASMUSSEN

Documentary - Completed 2021

Amin, a successful academic, grapples with a secret he has hidden for 20 years. Recounted to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, his close friend, he tells the story of his journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan for the first time.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021

World Cinema Documentary Competition World Cinema Jury Prize

Goteborg FF (online) 2021

Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation, True Story
- Countries
- DENMARK, FRANCE
- Languages
- DANISH, DARI, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Jonas POHER RASMUSSEN
- Cast
- Riz AHMED
- Synopsis
- An Afghan refugee agrees to tell a remarkable personal narrative of persecution and escape on the condition that his identity not be revealed. As a means of fulfilling that wish, his filmmaker friend uses striking animation to not only protect this young man but also enhance his tale, bending time and memory to recount a visceral, poetic, and death-defying journey dictated by deception, loneliness, and a relentless will to survive.
  
  The result is Flee, a film unbound by documentary constraints and swept up in an astonishing array of archive footage, ’80s pop music, and hand-drawn craft that brings audiences directly into the experience of a teen fleeing multiple countries—and the psychological impact on how he loves, trusts, and understands his burgeoning identity. Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s film is a triumph of storytelling and filmmaking ingenuity, but its greatest asset is the empathy and trust Rasmussen forms with the film’s protagonist, whose clarity and vulnerability grant us access to a unique refugee tale.

FLEE

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