Flee

Flee is an extraordinary true story that follows a man who is confronted, just before his marriage, with a painful secret from his previous life. In Flee, the Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2021 Sundance Festival, filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen tells a poignant account of belonging and the search for identity. Amin’s life has been defined by his past and a secret he’s kept for over 20 years. Forced to leave his home country of Afghanistan as a young child with his mother and siblings, Amin now grapples with how this will affect his future in Denmark and the life he is building with his soon-to-be husband. Told brilliantly through the use of vivid animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his life, opening up for the first time about his past, his trauma, the truth about his family, and his acceptance of his own sexuality.  [2021, Denmark, 83 min, Rated: PG-13, In Danish with English subtitles] Amy Nicholson of Film Week exclaims, “The animation here is used for such expressionistic beauty.” Peter Tavers of ABC News writes, “The year’s most inventive animated adventure mixes graphic design with documentary realism and puts hallucinatory brilliance at the service of understanding the continuing psychic damage of war. You’ll never forget it.”            Venue: Cinema Art Theater. Presenter: Rehoboth Beach Film Society.