Open Film Screening: Flee

Everyone is warmingly invited to join Canterbury Film Society for a free open event to highlight World Refugee Day: We are screening the award-winning animated documentary, Flee and holding a post-film Q&A with veteran Amnesty International activist and journalist Margaret Taylor and refugee lawyer Dr Amir Bastani.

Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen • 2021 • 89 mins • Denmark • M)
“Refugee stories have a tragic, crushing universality about them: dank cargo-holds and shipping containers, thuggish human traffickers, the desperation of families torn apart by war and persecution. But in the telling of one such story — that of Amin Nawabi (Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh), an Afghan academic settled in Denmark but still shaken by the escape he made during his teenage years — documentary filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen has somehow found a way inside these horrors that’s truly unique. Flee jolts to life via swirling hand-drawn animation, which is not what you’d expect. It’s also a memory play, a therapy session and, most subtly, a coming-out comedy. Unspooling like a hush of secrets about to be disclosed after decades, Flee is a stirring, haunted reminiscence like no other.” - Empire

Presented with the support of Quakers Aotearoa New Zealand and Amnesty International, this film is free and open to the public.

Doors open at 7.00pm and you can mingle in the foyer (home baked treats and drinks - please bring cash as eftpos is not available).

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