Completed - DANISH, DARI, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH - Documentary, Animation, True Story - 90 minutes
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.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Jonas POHER RASMUSSEN Producer(s) : Monica HELLSTRÖM (Final Cut For Real ), Charlotte DE LA GOURNERIE (Sun Creature Studios)
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.
Country(ies) : DENMARK, FRANCE, SWEDEN, NORWAY
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Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021 - World Cinema Documentary Competition (World Cinema Jury Prize)Goteborg FF (online) 2021 (Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary)Toronto - TIFF 2021 TIFF DocsBusan IFF 2021 Wide Angle - Documentary ShowcaseVision du Réel 2021 (Audience Award)