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Flee

Name: Flee
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Drama
Released: 2021
Duration: 1 h 30 min

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Documentary
Animation

2021
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
90 mins
15

Summary

Animated documentary. Amin, an Afghan refugee who has lived in Denmark since childhood, tells the story of his family's tortuous and often dangerous escape to Europe in the late 1980s, which resulted in their separation. He also opens up about the process of understanding his sexuality, and navigates the relationship issues that have arisen from his precarious immigration status.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

This remarkable, mostly animated Danish documentary recounts the personal struggle of a gay Afghan refugee, still tormented by his past decades after arriving in Copenhagen as a child. Based on interviews conducted by writer/director Jonas Poher Rasmussen with a former school friend, Amin (names and locations changed for protection), it describes Amin's decimated family's escape from Kabul during the 1989 civil war. They survive a grim holding-pattern existence in Russia, a disastrous attempt to get to a brother in Sweden via crooked human traffickers and a dismal Estonian asylum centre before final rescue. The movie is a mix of entrancing hand-drawn animation and sober archival news footage that in galvanising style and execution boldly redefines what a documentary can be and the emotional rewards it can achieve.

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7.9/10