Flee (2021)

This emotional animated documentary about a closeted Afghani refugee and his family is very good. Directed and co-written by Jonas Poher Rasmussen with co-writer Amin Nawabi, the subject of the documentary, it is animated to protect the identities of Nawabi and his family. All of the animation is hand-drawn, with no tracing. There is also a bit of archival film included here and there.

Uno Helmersson's powerful score is available on Apple Music and probably elsewhere.

The movie made history for being Oscar-nominated in three categories––documentary, animated, and foreign (it was produced in Denmark)––but was edged out in all three. Here's my running list, which is almost up to date.

Another running list on this blog is the Producers Plethora Prize list, because I'm fascinated when so many people are active behind the scenes. This one, with 32 producers, including actor Riz Ahmed, has made the list, though far from the winner, which has 43!

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are glued to their seats, averaging 98 and 92%, respectively.

I downloaded it, dubbed and captioned in English, from Hulu and watched it on a long plane ride on March 23.