‘Flee’ Review: A Genre-Bending Documentary — The Basic Cinephile

Zianna Weston
2 min readJan 3, 2022

This animated documentary that tells the story of Amin and his struggles as a refugee.

an animated man laying down on a patterned rug
Flee is a genre-bending animated documentary that tells the story of Amin and his struggles as a refugee. Image courtesy of NEON.

Flee is an animated Danish documentary about a man named Amin who fled Afghanistan as a child after the Soviet Union left and the country descended into war. It chronicles his struggles with trying to find somewhere safe to live. The story is told as a series of…

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