‘I think people can really relate to the universality of the story,’ says director Rasmussen.
COPENHAGEN: An Oscar-nominated Danish documentary chronicling a gay Afghan refugee’s perilous journey to Europe tries to show that being a refugee is what happens to you, not who you are, its director told AFP.
“Flee”, an animated film which is up for three Academy Awards, is in the spotlight ahead of Sunday’s Oscars ceremony as the world witnesses another mass exodus, the millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country.
“I really hope that we can give some nuance and some perspective,” director Jonas Poher Rasmussen told AFP on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Being a refugee is not an identity. It’s a circumstance of life.”
In 2015, “we had Syrian refugees on the highways here…
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