{"id":4128,"date":"2023-07-14T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4128"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:10:16","slug":"flee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/flee\/","title":{"rendered":"Flee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Denmark\/France\/Norway 2022, 89 mins, 15<\/p>\n

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"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 \u2018real\u2019" The Observer<\/i>
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Flee<\/i> 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<\/i>.
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"All but the hardest of hearts will shatter. It\u2019s a film that ends in tears of joy" The Times<\/i>
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Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. RogerEbert.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Empire<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Interview with the director (Curzon)<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Interview with the director<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Trailer<\/h4>