Flee

Cert PG

13th. April 2023

Sundance Winner of the Grand Jury Prize; British Independent Film Awards – Best International Independent Film; New York Critics Circle – Best Non Fiction Film  

Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Cast: Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh

Country: Denmark        Danish /Russian /Swedish /French  (English dubbed)          90 min

UK release date: Feb 2022

This adult animation tells the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi who shares, for the first time, his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark.

“It’s a genuine thrill to encounter a film as exciting and immediate as Flee… there are sequences of almost unbearable suspense as Amin tries to find safety but also poignant liberation.” – Benjamin Lee, The Guardian

“The ‘serious cartoons for grown-ups’ genre may have found its defining entry with this profoundly affecting animation about the true life trials of a gay Afghan refugee.” – Kevin Maher, The Times