Please join us for a screening of Flee which will be introduced by Professor, Hans Eijmberts, Distinguished Lecturer in Global Studies and Director of the Valente Center. 

(2021, Denmark/France/Norway/Sweden/Netherlands/U.K./U.S./Finland/Spain/Estonia/Slovenia/Belgium-89 min.) Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Growing up in Copenhagen, Rasmussen became friends with an Afghan refugee named Amin. Amin fled Afghanistan after the Mujahideen grew more powerful during the First Afghan Civil War of the 1980s and 1990s and arrived in Denmark alone. The two became friends, staying in touch as Rasmussen pursued filmmaking and Amin pursued his doctoral degree. When they reconnect for the documentary, it’s as adults ready to look back on the past with a mixture of honesty, wistfulness, and resignation (from Amin) and curiosity and patience (Rasmussen). “This is a true story,” an intertitle states at the beginning, and the film honors the weight of that statement with an engrossing story that is as unflinching as it is—through a tremendous amount of human will— hopeful. Scraps of memories are sometimes all we have of the people we loved and lost, and Amin compiles them together to speak of his deep bond with his family, his struggle to reconcile his sexuality with his cultural background, and the trauma of being stateless. Nominated for Best International Feature Film, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature Oscars and for Best Motion Picture – Animated Golden Globe.

Bentley’s Fall 2025 International Film Series is made possible with generous support from the Department of Global Studies, the Department of English and Media Studies, the Valente Center for the Arts & Sciences, the Bentley Library, the Office of Sustainability, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Film and Media Studies Lab, the Academic Technology Center, and Bentley’s African Student Association