PREVIEW: Flee (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Amin Nawabi (film debut), Daniel Karimyar (film debut), Fardin Mijdzadeh (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Searching for Bill), director, writer; Amin Nawabi (film debut), writer; Natalie Farrey (The Report), Monica Hellstrøm (Moon Rider) and Signe Byrge Sørensen (The Act of Killing), producers; Uno Helmersson (The Absent One), composer; Janus Billeskov Jansen (Another Round), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

As a minor, Amin Nawabi fled his native Afghanistan and travelled to Denmark as a refugee. Twenty years on, as he is about to marry his long-term boyfriend, Amin relays his secret story for the first time…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

With assistance from executive producer Riz Ahmed, Flee is a fascinatingly unique animated documentary that tells an important story of migrancy and sexuality that we all desperately need to hear.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH FEBRUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT EXCLUSIVELY ON CURZON HOME CINEMA

 

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