Flee

Film - 2021

8,3

100.3K

Flee it's a movie with Amin Nawabi, Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz Full cast. Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Original title Flugt, runtime 93 minutes. Genres Documentary, Animation.

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Emiliano Baglio

FleeBetween animation and documentary, the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee in Denmark, the first film nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Film, Best Documentary and Best International Film. Let's be clear, Amin's story would have struck us deeply in any case but it is equally obvious that now, while our eyes are filled with the tragic images coming from Ukraine, it seems more relevant than ever. Amin escaped from Afghanistan through Russia all the way to Denmark in an escape that lasted years. On the eve of her wedding to her partner, through interviews and chats with her director friend Jonas Poher Rasmussen, for the first time, after a life of lies, she will tell her true story There are many threads that Flee follows in its unraveling. It starts, for example, from the history of Afghanistan in the late 1980s, forcing us to turn our gaze towards a country whose destiny seems to have disappeared from the radar of our lazy attention. When Amin escapes, together with his family, in 1989, the only destination is Russia and here his private story is intertwined with that of the collapse of the communist empire. Finally there are the various attempts to abandon the Soviet Union and arrive in Europe on a journey of hope and desperation which, inevitably, reminds us of those across the Mediterranean. To put it in terms that are no longer in fashion today, in Flee the private is political and the intimate events of a family of exiles scattered across the Europe merge with the History with a capital H of the 80s through a series of nations that, even today, appear at the center of international tension. Remaining indifferent is, clearly, impossible and it is the details that remain imprinted, as indeed it is for Amin himself. Some are the same ones that forcefully come back to his memory. The flashing red lights of the child's shoes in front of him in the first Read all

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Diego Cineriflessi

Animated cinema for adults has always provided little gems little seen and little understood by the public due to a sort of prejudice about the genre. Yet works like Waltz with Bashir or our local Cinderella the Cat are truly films to see and remember. Flee, a work by Danish director Rasmussen, follows this path and combines animation with a documentary and realistic spirit with an original and interesting flight of fancy. The story of reality through the stylization of animation. A stylization that grows in parallel with the cruelty of sitation. In fact, Rasmussen alternates simple pastel lines with black and white scenes that tell the real nightmares experienced by the protagonist during his wanderings as an illegal immigrant and during the violence of the police. And so the story gradually envelops the viewer with narrative fluidity and astonishing dignity. The screenplay is balanced between pain and joy, without ever indulging in pietism or false moralism. Everything is brought to light because with animation even the worst things can be imprinted on film without ever overdoing it. The first film to receive an Oscar nomination for best animated film, best documentary and best international film, it is truly one of those little gems worth seeing, especially at this time when war is knocking on the doors of the European Union. Nice, even if with a really small distribution. Sin Read all

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Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.