Queer Thursdays Archive
FLEE – April 14, 7:30 PM @ Cinestudio

FLEE – April 14, 7:30 PM @ Cinestudio

FLEE makes history as the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in three film categories: Best International Feature Film, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature!

An animated documentary telling the true story about a man’s need to confront his past in order to truly have a future. Amin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, at 36, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-time boyfriend. A secret he has been hiding for over 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built for himself. For the first time, he is sharing his story with his close friend.

Please note: Per Trinity College policy, proof of vaccination is required to see the film at Cinestudio. Click here to view Cinestudio’s safety precautions.

“The year’s most inventive animated adventure mixes graphic design with documentary realism and puts hallucinatory brilliance at the service of understanding the continuing psychic damage of war. You’ll never forget it.”  – Peter Travers, ABC News

Directed by: Jonas Poher Rasmussen | 2021 | Denmark | 89 minutes | In Danish with English subtitles