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Flee  2020
Director:  Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Producer:
  Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen, animation producer Charlotte De La Gournerie
Art Director:
  Guillaume Dousse
Editor:
  Janus Billeskov Jansen
Music:
  Uno Helmersson
Screenplay:
  Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Director of Photography:
  Mauricio Gonzalez-Aranda
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Cast:
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Synopsis:
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.

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