Flee

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Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Denmark/France/Norway 2022, 89 mins, 15

"This is a triumph-of-the-human-spirit story as dramatic as the most finely wrought melodrama, with flashes of vintage newsreels reminding us that it is all ‘real’" The Observer

Flee is an animated documentary which tells the true story of Amin (not his real name) and the painful secret he has kept hidden for twenty years. With a successful academic career and on the verge of getting married to his long-term boyfriend, Amin finally shares the story of his extraordinary escape from Afghanistan as a child refugee with a close friend Jonas Rasmussen, a documentary film maker, who went on to create and direct Flee.

"All but the hardest of hearts will shatter. It’s a film that ends in tears of joy" The Times

Further reading

  1. The Guardian
  2. RogerEbert.com
  3. Empire
  4. Interview with the director (Curzon)
  5. Interview with the director

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