

It's a documentary that gives vivid shape to Amin's life and to the harrowing plight of migrants. Speaking anonymously under the name Amin, he relates to Rasmussen a five-year odyssey that stretches from Afghanistan to the Soviet Union to Scandinavia. “Flee,” which opened in select theaters Friday and expands in coming weeks, uses animation to vividly capture Rasmussen's friend's story. “Its really difficult for him to talk about.” “What you see in the film, what you hear in the film, is the first time he’s shared the story,” says Rasmussen. This time, his friend was finally ready to talk about his family fleeing war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1980s. But eight years ago, when Rasmussen was in a program that paired documentary filmmakers with animators, he asked again. About 15 years ago, Rasmussen, who by then was in radio, asked about making an audio documentary of his story. It would be a long time before Rasmussen's friend was prepared to tell his story to him, or anyone else. Even then I was curious how he and why he had gotten to the village, but he didn’t want to talk about it.” “We met at the bus stop every morning going to high school and we became very good friends. “He arrived all by himself and stayed with a family just around the corner from where I lived,” says Rasmussen.


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