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‘Flee’ Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen On Memory, Trauma And The Power Of Documentary Animation – Contenders New York

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Jonas Poher Rasmussen joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event Saturday to shed further light on the backstory to his lauded Sundance debut Flee, which is Denmark’s entry for the International Feature Oscar race.

The animated documentary from Neon and Participant tells the true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage that compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.

Amin is also a childhood friend of the director.Rasmussen and Amin initially met when the latter “arrived to my hometown when I was 15 and he was 16,” the director said on the panel.

He continued, “When he arrived, he came with this fake backstory that these human traffickers had given him, and because he didn’t want to lie to any of us who asked him

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