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Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 4 – Flee

An immensely powerful, humanising documentary about one Afghan’s escape from 1980s Kabul, made all the more thrilling and suspenseful through its animation

The Guardian - UK

Heartbreak High, Rings of Power, Blonde: what’s new to streaming in Australia this September

Plus a starry drama about the Bali bombings, new Rick and Morty and Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson

The Guardian - AU

Oscar winners 2022: CODA, Jane Campion, Will Smith and Jessica Chastain win big but Nicole Kidman and Kodi Smit-McPhee miss out

This year's best films and performances have been named at the Academy Awards with Coda taking out Best Picture while Will Smith and Jessica Chastain also won big. Here are the winners in every category.

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Animating conflict & refugees in "Flee"

Let's hope that governments who set immigration policies heed this tale before turning away the asylum seekers

Salon

Surprise hit 'Flee' tells human story of refugees

Copenhagen (AFP) - An Oscar-nominated Danish documentary chronicling a gay Afghan refugee's perilous journey to Europe tries to show that being a refugee is what happens to you, not who you are, its director told AFP.

AFP

A refugee's anonymity through animation

Jonas Poher Rasmussen spoke to Salon about his Oscar-nominated documentary pushing cinematic narrative boundaries

Salon

The star of Oscar-nominated 'Flee' gives his first interview: 'I wanted my story to be seen'

Several years ago, Amin Nawabi sat for a series of interviews with friend and filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen with a caveat: in telling his story, his identity would remain private to the world, freeing him to speak openly about his harrowing experiences as a child refugee escaping war-torn Afghanistan in…

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Oscar nominee Flee animates the true story of a child refugee's journey from Afghanistan to Denmark

In Flee, a gay Afghan man retells the story of his flight from Afghanistan to safety in Denmark through a mixture of hand-drawn animation and 80s pop culture references.

ABC News

Flee: animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees

The Danish animated documentary Flee directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen is a powerful feat of storytelling. So much so it has earned several awards and nominations.

The Conversation

Flee review – an Afghan refugee confronts his past in masterly animated documentary

A long, hard journey from Kabul to Copenhagen is relived in Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ultimately uplifting film – a deserving awards contender

The Guardian - UK

Danish animated doc ‘Flee’ makes Oscars history with triple nominations

LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s docudrama “Flee” made history Tuesday morning when it scored Academy Award nominations across three separate feature film categories: documentary, animated feature and international film.

Los Angeles Times

Afghan refugee shares secret story in acclaimed film 'Flee'

When filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 years old, an Afghan teenager arrived in his rural Danish village. Word got out the youngster had fled after his entire family was killed and had made the long journey to the Scandinavian country on foot.

Reuters

Flee: inside the film about a Kabul boy who finds happiness, cats and a husband in Denmark

He escaped death, fled across the Baltic, and eventually found love and a new life. Jonas Poher Rasmussen describes how he turned Amin’s often harrowing story into an uplifting, award-winning animation

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