It is both horrifying and, ultimately, hopeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Amin's story is told in the most beautiful of ways thanks to the direction of Jonas Poher Rasmussen and the animation that not only helps keep Amin's identity secret, but is able to delve into his past...

| Mar 1, 2024

It was incredibly moving and heartbreaking, and the animation made the documentary aspect of the film come to life, compared to feeling as if it was merely an interview.

| Jul 19, 2023

Documentaries rarely use every possible resource to tell its story. However, this story of an Afghan man’s tumultuous journey to freedom goes beyond the extra mile to illustrate to viewers the harsh reality of survival...

| Feb 21, 2023

The most compelling argument, however, is implicitly offered by Nawabi, whose story is indeed harrowing...

| Nov 29, 2022

It is impossible not to be swept up by this incredible story. One that the lead character tried to leave behind but audiences will find Flee hard to forget.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

An animated film that defies the constraints of typical documentaries, this heartbreaking tale about an Afghan refugee traversing land and sea to find a safe home is a compelling exercise in trust.

| Sep 27, 2022

Through Rassmussen's long-form interviews, Amin digs through traumatising or repressed memories and he comes to a series of realisations...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 10, 2022

An original format, it finds its stride quickly and we lose ourselves in this animated world, albeit never far away from the horrific reality of what it means to be a refugee.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 27, 2022

Innovative, sincere, heartbreaking, harrowing and poetic in tandem, and also simply astonishing.

| Jun 25, 2022

The Danish director [Jonas Poher Rasmussen] conquers the truth of the story through the fabrication of drawing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2022

Flee is a gripping story of survival, an emotionally satisfying tale of past traumas and self-acceptance and a beautiful piece of animation. Highly recommended.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 5, 2022

Flee owns a novel narrative that isn't easily dismissed... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 2, 2022

A valuable document, but it's also just that, a document that missed the opportunity to become something else. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 31, 2022

The filmmaker needs to get us deeply invested, and the choice to use animation – instead of simply showing us Amin as he tells the story – enables him to use the full visual vocabulary of cinema to do it.

| May 19, 2022

On his part, Rasmussen lends Amin a cinematic canvas that make the refugee narrative at the center of Flee both emotionally involving and immersive.

| May 11, 2022

This earned Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature, Best International Feature Film, AND Best Animated Feature Film (albeit losing all three).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2022

Flee is a powerful glance at one Afghan refugees story as he attempts to find a place to call home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2022

Amins situation speaks to a vast human experience at present. The latest figures on displacement and dislocation are horrifying, an indictment of global capitalism.

| Apr 7, 2022

It takes us further away from the necessary realism of documentaries that present fact, what Dziga Vertov called “life caught unaware.” Flee epitomizes how our information stream suffers from the combination of fantasy and propaganda.

| Mar 19, 2022