Het Puntje x Movies that Matter: Flee
This summer, together with beach bar Het Puntje, we are organising a film festival at the very tip of Scheveningen! Three evenings with three films that invite reflection, conversation, and connection.
On Thursday, July 31, the film Flee (2021) will be shown. Amin fled Afghanistan as a boy and ended up in Denmark years later. For the first time, he tells his life story. A painful, intimate portrait in animated form, weaving together questions of identity, migration, and sexual orientation.
About the film
No one knows his exact escape story, not even his partner. Yet director Jonas Poher Rasmussen gets his school friend Amin to open up about the journey he took from 1980s Afghanistan to present-day Denmark. With the promise that he can remain completely anonymous.
Rasmussen ensures this by animating most of the sometimes thrilling, sometimes moving story. Through hand-drawn 2D animation, he illustrates Amin’s journey through the no-man’s-land between citizen and illegal, past corrupt Russian agents and inhumane human traffickers, living with endless boredom and life-threatening tension.
But more than that, Flee shows how a person is shaped mentally under such circumstances: hiding doesn’t stop once you have the right papers. Amin, a businessman and a gay man, was forced to construct a false identity – one he finally, slowly but surely, dares to shed here, safely hidden behind animation.
Practical information
Date: Thursday, July 31, 20:00
Location: De Komma (the annex of Het Puntje), Strand Noord 3N, 2586 ZZ The Hague. See here how to get to the location.
Entrance: €9.79
Language: more information will follow shortly
Tickets: buy your ticket via Het Puntje
This screening is made possible by Fonds 1818.