Flee

Name: Flee
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Released: 2021

Jonas Poher Rasmussen 2021

FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

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Running Time:	89 min.
Subject(s):	Author's POV, Biography, Children, Conflicts, Current Affairs, Ethnography, Family, Human Rights, Immigration and Migration, LGBT, Middle Eastern Studies, Personal Story, Social Justice, Society, War
Language(s):	Danish, Russian
Subtitles:	English
Director(s):	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Producer(s):	Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie
Cinematographer:	Mauricio Gonzalez-aranda
Editor(s):	Janus Billeskov Jansen
Production Company:	Final Cut For Real, Sun Creature, Vivement Lundi!, Mostfilm, Mer Film, VICE STUDIOS, LEFT HANDED FILMS

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THE GUARDIAN

Remarkable refugee story told with heart and audacity.
Flee is a remarkably humanizing and complex film, expanding and expounding the kind of story that’s too easily simplified.

Benjamin Lee
INDIE WIRE

“Flee” made news ahead of its Sundance premiere when news broke that Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau were boarding the project as executive producers and to lend their voices for the movie’s English-language dub.

Zack Sharf
INDIE WIRE

There have been countless movies about the immigration crisis, but none of them have the sheer ingenuity of “Flee”.

Eric Kohn
FILMMAKERMAGAZINE

Flee, at its heart, is about how constantly having to flee our situation can affect us in our day to day lives and relationships.

Art Director Jess Nicholls
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Although the interviews function almost like therapy, there's nothing didactic here, nothing clinical or overly analytical. Instead, there's a kind of spontaneous purity to the storytelling, built on the empathetic connection established between the filmmaker and his subject.

David Rooney

Festival Participation

Academy Awards, USA - 2022
Oscar Nominee, Best Documentary Feature
Academy Awards, USA - 2022
Oscar Nominee, Best Animated Feature Film
Academy Awards, USA - 2022
Oscar Nominee, Best International Feature Film
BAFTA Awards - 2022
Nominee, Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival - 2021
Winner, Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema - Documentary
Alliance of Women Film Journalists - 2022
EDA Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film
Annecy International Animated Film Festival - 2021
Winner, Best Original Music for a Feature Film
Annecy International Animated Film Festival - 2021
Cristal Winner, Best Feature
Annie Awards - 2022
Winner, Best Animated Independent Feature
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US - 2022
Winner, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Danish Film Awards (Robert) - 2022
Winner, Best Documentary
European Film Awards - 2021
Winner, European Documentary
Gold Derby Awards - 2022
Winner, Documentary Feature
Hollywood Critics Association - 2022
HCA Award Nominee, Best Documentary Film
National Board of Review, USA - 2021
Winner, Freedom of Expression Award
Nordisk Film Award - 2021
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