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. Here’s the trailer:

Jonas Poher Ramussenis a Danish/French film directorborn in 1981. He debuted in 2006 with theacclaimed TV documentary Something About Halfdan, followed by a series of radio documentaries from around the world. He graduated from the Danish filmschool Super16 in 2010. His feature film debut Searching for Bill, a mix ofdocumentary and fiction, won him the Nordic Doxaward at CPH:DOX, and the international competitionprize at DocAviv. In November 2015 he premiered his latest documentary What He Did, which won the prestigious Fipresci (Int. Federation of Film Critics) at ThessalonikiFilm Fest. 2016. His new film Flee, an animated documentary about aclose friend, was officially selected for Cannes 2020.

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Jerry Beck

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

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