Flee (film)

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Flee
A group of animated people.
Promotional release poster
Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
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  • Jonas Poher Rasmussen
  • Amin
Music by Uno Helmersson
Cinematography Mauricio Gonzalez-Aranda
Edited by Janus Billeskov Jansen
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Release dates
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  • January 28, 2021 (2021-01-28) (Sundance)
  • December 3, 2021 (2021-12-03) (United States)
Running time
 90 minutes[2]
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  • Denmark
  • France
  • Norway
  • Sweden
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Budget $3.4 million[3]
Box office $727,973[4][5]

Flee (Danish: Flugt) is a 2021 Danish adult animated documentary film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. It follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his country for the first time. Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau serve as executive producers and narrators for the English-language dub version.

The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021. It was released in theaters in the United States on December 3, 2021, by Neon and Participant.[6]

Flee received unanimous acclaim from film festivals and critics, with critical praise for animation, story, thematic content, subject matter, and LGBT representation. The film also incorporates archival film footage of events in Afghanistan from the time Amin fled.[7] Various critics found to be the most frequently ranked as one of the best films of the year,[8][9][10][11] and garnered numerous awards, mainly for animated and documentary categories including Best Animated Feature — Independent at 49th Annie Awards.

The film was selected as the Danish entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film,[12] where it received a nomination, along with nominations in the Best Documentary Feature and Best Animated Feature categories, becoming the first film to be nominated in all three major categories simultaneously.

Plot

The film follows Amin Nawabi, who, on the verge of marrying his husband, shares his story for the first time about his hidden past fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark as a refugee.

Voice cast

  • Amin Nawabi as Himself (present day)
    • Daniel Karimyar as Amin (ages 9-11)
    • Fardin Mijdzadeh as Amin (15-18)
  • Jonas Poher Rasmussen as Himself
  • Kasper (Amin's boyfriend) as Himself
  • Belal Faiz as Saif (13-19)
    • Milad Eskandari as Saif (8)
  • Zahra Mehrwarz as Fahima (28)
    • Elaha Faiz as Fahima (13-26)
  • Sadia Faiz as Sabia (16-26)

A number of the voice cast members are credited as anonymous, including the voice of Amin at ages 13-15, Abbas, Akthar Nawabi, Tahera, and young Tahera.

Production

In January 2021, it was announced Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau would serve as executive producers on the film, and narrate an English-language dub version of the film.[13]

Animation

The core animation team behind the film consisted of around ten animators and cleanup artists in Denmark, as well as a team of coloring artists in France. Each scene would go through a rough pass of animation where the team checked the acting of the characters and the intention. Once Poher Rasmussen approved it, the animators would tighten up the drawings in terms of the look of characters. The cleanup team would then check for the correct brushwork — meant to seem inky and sketchy as if from a graphic novel to give maturity to the line work — before finally shipping it off to the coloring team to embellish the characters. “It was a pretty big machinery,” noted Ladekjær.[14]

Release

Flee had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021.[15] Shortly after, Neon/Participant, Curzon Artificial Eye and Haut et Court acquired US, British and French distribution rights respectively.[1][16][17] The film was initially set to have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2020, but the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18] It was also screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2021 New York Film Festival in September 2021.[19]

The film was released in select theaters for New York and Los Angeles by NEON and Participant on December 3, 2021[20] with a nationwide expansion on January 21, 2022.[21] The film became available on Hulu on February 8, 2022.[22]

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, the film earned $24,794 from four theaters for a per screen average of $6,198.[23]

Critical response

Flee received widespread critical acclaim, with Sundance juror Kim Longinotto calling it "an instant classic" at the festival's awards ceremony.[24] It holds a Lua error in Module:Rotten_Tomatoes_data at line 72: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on Lua error in Module:Rotten_Tomatoes_data at line 72: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. reviews, with an average rating of Lua error in Module:Rotten_Tomatoes_data at line 72: invalid escape sequence near '"^'.. The critics consensus reads "Depicting the refugee experience through vivid animation, Flee pushes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking to present a moving memoir of self-discovery."[25] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 91 out of 100 based on reviews from 33 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[26] It is also the sixth best reviewed film of 2021 in the website, as well the best reviewed animated film of that year.[27]

UK Film Review gave the film a 5-star rating.[28]

Metacritic reported that Flee appeared on over 33 film critics' top-ten lists for 2021, only the first two animated films appeared on the list this year alongside The Mitchells vs. the Machines. The film ranked first and second on 2 lists.[29]

Parasite director, Bong Joon-ho, listed Flee as one of his favorite films of 2021[30] and wrote a letter dedicated to the movie calling it "The most moving piece of cinema I saw this year."[31]

BBC listed as one of the twenty best films of 2021.[32] Flee also ranked as the seventh best movie of 2021 in an IndieWire poll to 187 critics and journalists.[33]

Awards and nominations

At Sundance, the film won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section.[34] It was subsequently screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Feature Film.[34]

At the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was second runner-up for the People's Choice Award for Documentaries.[35] It is also nominated for two Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, for Best Feature and Best Director.[36]

It won NBR Freedom of Expession and one of the top documentaries at National Board of Review,[37] a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature, earned two categories for British Academy Film Awards, won an Annie Award for the Best Animated Feature — Independent and four Dorian Awards.

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Sundance Film Festival February 3, 2021 World Cinema Documentary Competition Flee Won [38]
Annecy International Animation Film Festival June 19, 2021 Best Feature Won [39]
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution Won
Best Original Music for a Feature Film Uno Helmersson Won
Toronto International Film Festival September 18, 2021 People's Choice Award for Documentaries Flee Runner-up [35]
CLIT International Film Festival October 17, 2021 Best Feature - Ativa-te! category Won [40]
Out on Film October 22, 2021 Best International Film - Audience Award Won [41]
Montclair Film Festival November 2, 2021 Audience Award for World Cinema Won [42]
Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature Jonas Poher Rasmussen Won
Newport Beach Film Festival November 3, 2021 Best Animated Feature - Audience Award Flee Won [43]
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards November 14, 2021 Best Documentary Feature Nominated [36]
Best Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen Nominated
Manchester Animation Festival November 25, 2021 Best Feature Film Flee Won [44]
Gotham Independent Film Awards November 29, 2021 Best Documentary Feature Won [45]
National Board of Review December 3, 2021 Top Documentaries Won [37]
NBR Freedom of Expession Won
New York Film Critics Circle December 3, 2021 Best Non-Fiction Film Won [46]
Detroit Film Critics Society December 6, 2021 Best Documentary Won (Tied with "Summer of Soul") [47]
Best Animated Feature Nominated
British Independent Film Awards December 5, 2021 Best International Independent Film Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Amin Nawabi, Monica Hellstrøm, Signe Byrge Sørensen Won [48]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards December 6, 2021 Best Animated Feature Flee Nominated [49]
Best Documentary Nominated
European Film Awards December 11, 2021 Best Documentary Film Won [50]
Best Animated Feature Film Won
New York Film Critics Online December 12, 2021 Best Documentary Won [51]
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards December 12, 2021 Best Animated Film Won [52][53]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards December 15, 2021 Best Animated Film Won [54]
Best Documentary Film Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards December 18, 2021 Best Animated Film Won [55]
Utah Film Critics Association December 18, 2021 Best Animated Film Won [56]
Non-English Language Feature Won
Best Documentary Runner-up
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards December 19, 2021 Best Animated Film Nominated [57]
Best Documentary Won
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Indiana Film Journalists Association December 20, 2021 Best Animated Film Won [58]
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 20, 2021 Best Foreign Language Film Runner-up [59]
Best Documentary Film Runner-up
Russell Smith Award Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards December 22, 2021 Best Documentary Film Nominated [60]
Best Animated Film Runner-up
National Society of Film Critics January 8, 2022 Best Non-Fiction Film Won [61]
Golden Globe Awards January 9, 2022 Best Animated Feature Nominated [62]
San Diego Film Critics Society January 10, 2021 Best Animated Film Runner-up [63]
Best Documentary Runner-up
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle January 10, 2022 Best Documentary Feature Nominated [64]
Best Animated Feature Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Austin Film Critics Association January 11, 2022 Best Animated Film Nominated [65]
Best Documentary Nominated
Georgia Film Critics Association January 14, 2022 Best Picture Nominated [66]
Best Animated Film Nominated
Best Documentary Film Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association January 16, 2022 Best Animated Film Won [67]
Best Documentary Film Runner-up
North Dakota Film Society January 17, 2022 Best Picture Nominated [68]
Best Animated Feature Nominated
Best Documentary Feature Won
Best International Feature Won
Denver Film Critics Society January 17, 2022 Best Animated Film Won [69]
Non-English Language Feature Nominated
Best Documentary Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society January 17, 2022 Best Animated Film Won [70]
Non-English Language Feature Nominated
Best Documentary Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Awards January 19, 2022 Best Animated Feature Film Nominated [71]
Best Documentary Feature Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards January 24, 2022 Best Documentary Nominated [72]
Best Animated Feature Nominated
Best Film Not in the English Language Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards January 2022 Best Documentary Flee Won [73]
Best Animated Film Nominated
Best Non-English-Language Film Nominated
London Film Critics Circle Awards February 6, 2022 Documentary of the Year Nominated [74]
Technical Achievement Award Kenneth Ladekjær (animation) Nominated
Cinema Eye Honors March 1, 2022 Outstanding Non-Fiction Feature Feature Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen Won [75]
Audience Choice Prize Jonas Poher Rasmussen Nominated
Outstanding Direction Nominated
Outstanding Production Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen Nominated
Outstanding Original Score Uno Helmersson Nominated
Outstanding Sound Design Edward Björner and Tormod Ringnes Nominated
Outstanding Graphic Design/Animation Kenneth Ladekjær Won
The Unforgettables Amin Won
American Cinema Editors Awards March 5, 2022 Best Edited Documentary – Feature Janus Billeskov Jansen Nominated [76]
Independent Spirit Awards March 6, 2022 Best Documentary Feature Flee Nominated [77]
Annie Awards March 12, 2022 Best Animated Feature — Independent Won [78]
Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Kenneth Ladekjær Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Feature Production Janus Billeskov Jansen Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Amin Nawabi Nominated
British Academy Film Awards March 13, 2022 Best Animated Film Flee Nominated [79]
Best Documentary Nominated
Critics' Choice Awards March 13, 2022 Best Animated Feature Nominated [80]
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Golden Reel Awards March 13, 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Documentary Edward Björner, Jens Johansson, Fredrik Jonsäter, Rune Van Deurs, Bengt Öberg Nominated [81]
Dorian Awards March 17, 2022 Best LGBTQ Film Flee Won [82]
Best Animated Film Won
Best Documentary Won
Best LGTBQ Documentary Won
Best Non-English Language Film Nominated
Producers Guild of America Awards March 19, 2022 Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures Nominated [83]
Academy Awards March 27, 2022 Best Animated Feature Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie Nominated [84]
Best Documentary Feature Nominated
Best International Feature Film Denmark Nominated
GLAAD Media Awards April 2, 2022 Outstanding Documentary Flee Nominated [85]
Satellite Awards April 2, 2022 Best Animated or Mixed Media Film Nominated [86]
Best Documentary Film Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated

See also

References

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External links

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  • Flee at Metacritic

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