Flee
3 Academy Award® Nominations including Best International Film, Best Documentary Film and Best Animated Film!
National Society of Film Critics - Best Nonfiction Film!
2 Critics Choice Nominations Award Winner including Best Animated Feature and Best Foreign Language Film!
Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, 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.
in English and Danish with English subtitles
Online Reviews
• Observer "A Riveting Animated Documentary About an Afghan Refugee
Trauma and tribulations transform innocent lives in 'Flee.'" —Siddhant Adlakha
• IndieWire "Animated Documentary About Afghan Refugee Is a Thrilling, Masterful Survival Story: Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen uses a visually startling approach to bring one man's revelatory story to life." —Eric Kohn
• Hollywood Reporter "Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau serve as executive producers on Jonas Poher Rasmussen's distinctive refugee story, a collage of animation and newsreel footage retracing one man's traumatic odyssey to find a home." —David Rooney
