Should you watch Flee?
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Flee
Documentary · 2021
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.
The sides of Flee
- A man telling a friend what he fled from
- A childhood in Kabul, then years hidden in Russia
- A secret kept for twenty years from the man he loves
Flee is good for you if…
- you want a true story told by the person who lived it.
- you like animation used to protect a face and still show everything.
- you want one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark.
Flee is bad for you if…
- you don't watch animated films.
- you won't read subtitles for a Danish film.
- you can't sit with fear, separation and a family split apart.
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