FLEE

DIRECTOR:  JONAS POHER RASMUSSEN

SELECTED LINKS & QUOTES

ENGLISH

The guardian

Remarkable refugee story told with heart and audacity, Benjamin Lee, Jan. 31st, 2021.

“…This year’s first big sale, a well-earned reward for what’s likely to be the best film of the festival”

“Flee is a remarkably humanizing and complex film, expanding and expounding the kind of story that’s too easily simplified”

INDIE WIRE

‘Flee’ Director Wanted Riz Ahmed’s Voice for Sundance Doc After Seeing ‘Sound of Metal’, Zack Sharf, Jan 29, 2021.

“Flee” made news ahead of its Sundance premiere when news broke that Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau were boarding the project as executive producers and to lend their voices for the movie’s English-language dub”.

INDIE WIRE

Animated Documentary About Afghan Refugee Is a Thrilling, Masterful Survival Story, Eric Kohn, Jan 28, 2021.

“There have been countless movies about the immigration crisis, but none of them have the sheer ingenuity of “Flee”.

“With “Flee”, the filmmaker has found a subject whose story resonates because it almost certainly bears resemblance to countless others out there.”

VARIETY

Doc Explores the Layers of Truth in Afghan Refugee’s Survival Story, Peter Debruge, Jan 28, 2021.

“…the film is an incredibly intimate act of sharing.”

FILMmakermagazine

“It Is Always Tempting in Animation to Show More Than You Need to”: Art Director Jess Nicholls on Flee, Jan 31st, 2021.

“Flee, at its heart, is about how constantly having to flee our situation can affect us in our day to day lives and relationships”.

“…the unbounded use of animation, and how to tell a true story through unique mediums”.

SCREEN DAILY

‘Flee’: Sundance Review, Amber Wilkinson, Jan 29, 2021.

“Rasmussen’s consideration of one man’s journey sheds light on the emotional legacy that can linger even after sanctuary is found”.

Hollywood reporter

'Flee': Film Review | Sundance 2021, David Rooney, Jan 28, 2021.

“A unique escape from the prison of buried memory”.

“Although the interviews function almost like therapy, there's nothing didactic here, nothing clinical or overly analytical. Instead, there's a kind of spontaneous purity to the storytelling, built on the empathetic connection established between the filmmaker and his subject.”

THE PLAYLIST

‘Flee’ Is A Stellar Exploration Of Refuge Trauma [Sundance Review], Gregory Ellwood, Jan 28, 2021.

“At the center of the film, however, are the never-ending repercussions of the horrors many refugees experience”

NORWEGIAN

MER FILM

Strålende mottakelse for ‘Flukt’ på Sundance Film Festival, Jan 29, 2021.

“I Norge har filmen fått æren av å åpne HUMAN dokumentarfilmfestival i Oslo den 1. mars.”