Flee

Directed by JONAS POHER RASMUSSEN

Released 11 FEBRUARY

ANTICIPATION.

There’s promise of an empathetic character study told in untraditional terms. 3

ENJOYMENT.

And it delivers: formally bold and emotionally rich. 4

IN RETROSPECT.

Much to say about politics, sexuality, family, hope. This should be taught in schools. 4

How do you define “home”? Is it a place, its emotional tether – a handsome and bold portrait of a young, gay Afghan man telling his story for the first time. It’s the new feature from Danish documentary filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen, an almost entirely animated doc interviewing his longtime friend Amin Nawabi (using a pseudonym to protect his identity) about the journey that got him here – escaping Afghanistan in the late 1980s, losing track of his family and slowly finding himself in amid and against a fabricated narrative fed to him by human traffickers.