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Flee

Sometimes it takes years to start living your life

7.7(422)20211h 29m6

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$3.4M
Box office
$712.2K
Language
Danish
  • refugee
  • trauma
  • afghanistan
  • therapy
  • war trauma
  • memories
  • war refugees
  • gay theme
  • animated documentary

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America, France

Where to watch

Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival28 Jan 2021
    • Theatrical (limited)PG-13NY and LA3 Dec 2021
    • PhysicalPG-13Blu-ray1 Mar 2022
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival6 Oct 2021
    • Theatrical (limited)1511 Feb 2022
    • Digital / OTT1511 Feb 2022
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival14 Aug 2021
    • TheatricalM17 Feb 2022
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereCinefest Sudbury26 Oct 2021
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical (limited)1217 Jun 2021
  • BrazilBR

    • PremiereÉ Tudo Verdade8 Apr 2021
    • Theatrical1421 Apr 2022
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Premiere15+Karlovy Vary International Film Festival20 Aug 2021
    • Theatrical3 Feb 2022
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1517 Jun 2021
  • EstoniaEE

    • PremiereTallinn Black Nights Film Festival12 Nov 2021
    • Theatrical6 Jan 2022
  • FranceFR

    • Premiere16Festival Premiers Plans, Angers25 Jan 2022
    • TV16ARTE30 May 2022
    • Theatrical16Delayed (CoViD19)31 Aug 2022
    • Digital / OTTVOD18 Jan 2023
    • PhysicalDVD2 Feb 2023
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalK123 Nov 2022
    • Theatrical26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival15 Mar 2024
  • Hong KongHK

    • TheatricalIIA28 Apr 2022

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Flee was released on 17 June 2021.

Audience reviews

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    Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

    3/9/2021

    7/10

    Everybody has a story that deserves to be told, and an Afghan refugee’s personal narrative of oppression and the pursuit of a better life is portrayed in “Flee.” Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen animates a discussion between himself and his anonymous friend “Amin,” a man that has had one hell of an existence. Amin recounts his dramatic story through his own words, beginning when he was a young boy in Afghanistan in the…

  • B

    badelf

    8/2/2022

    10/10

    I loved **EVERYTHING** about this film. Jonas Rasmussen apparently is best friends with Amin, who just happens to be a Afghani who had to escape during Afghanistan's civil war because his father was one of the "_desaparecidos_" (to borrow the Chilean term of those silently murdered during Pinochet's rule). Sounds ordinary? But oh no it isn't. Now in his mid-30s, living in Denmark, gay, and having a boyfriend wh…

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