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Jonas Poher Rasmussen (born 19 May 1981) is a Danish filmmaker. In 2021, he wrote and directed the animated documentary Flee, that received three nominations for the Best Documentary Feature, Best International Film and Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen is a Danish director and writer, known for his documentaries Flee (2021), Searching for Bill (2012) and What He Did (2015). He was born in 1981 and has been nominated for two Oscars.
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Flee (Danish: Flugt) is a 2021 independent [6] adult animated documentary film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. An international co-production with Denmark, France, Norway, and Sweden, it follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark for the first time.
AwardDate Of CeremonyCategoryRecipient(s)World Cinema Documentary CompetitionFleeJune 19, 2021Best FeatureFleeJune 19, 2021Gan Foundation Award for DistributionFleeJune 19, 2021Best Original Music for a Feature FilmUno HelmerssonNov 30, 2021 · The award-winning documentary 'Flee,' directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, uses animation to tell a gay Afghan man's story of survival.
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Dec 3, 2021 · The filmmaker talks about his friendship with Amin, the refugee and gay man whose story he animates in Flee. He reveals how they collaborated, why they chose animation, and what he hopes the film will achieve.
Flee: Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. With Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz. FLEE tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.
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Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen was a high schooler when he met the person who would come to inspire his latest documentary, “Flee.” But it wasn’t until almost 20 years later that he learned his...
