Now, well into successful careers in film and academia, respectively, Rasmussen approaches Amin about finally sharing his past on the record. To get to Denmark, Amin had to endure deep suffering, and to receive asylum status, he had to tell the right story. Rasmussen grew up with Amin (a pseudonym to protect his identity and status) in a small Danish village, where the latter arrived alone at 16 and began living with a foster family.
The resulting documentary, Flee, is both a collage film about a young man who struggles with disclosing his past as an Afghani refugee, and a candid collaboration between longtime friends. Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen avoids this tendency in his latest project by infusing both of his professional mediums-documentary film and radio-with animation in order to grant his subject crucial anonymity.
Refugee stories are not always obscured by our media, but they are often distorted, with broadcast news segments and sensational dramas twisting the extreme oppression and abuse experienced by migrants into entertainment for those of us with the right passports.
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