Featuring a virtual Q&A with filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen.

When we hear tales of migration or refugee flight, we often experience these narratives as starting and ending with the journey itself, the aftermath a sort of epilogue. The brilliant and beautiful new animated documentary FLEE, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, takes an entirely different approach, revealing how the experience of being a refugee can shape one’s identity. In a film told almost entirely through animation, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen interviews middle school friend Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee, who recounts–for the first time–the full story of his escape from Afghanistan and eventual resettling in Denmark as a young teenager. This displacement from his home, and the discoveries he made about himself and his family over the course of a years-long journey, changed the young man’s life forever. AFS is proud to present FLEE as the Centerpiece Film selection of the 2021 Doc Days.

DOC DAYS FESTIVAL PASSES

IMPORTANT NOTE: Tickets for our opening night show of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND on October 14 are SOLD OUT. Any series passes purchased on or after October 11 will include a ticket to the Wednesday, October 20 encore screening of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, which will feature the pre-recorded Q&A with Todd Haynes and Richard Linklater.

Purchase an AFS Doc Days pass for tickets to all eight Doc Days screenings, taking place Thursday, October 14 – Sunday, October 17th, and receive 15% off the full ticket purchase price.

AFS Members receive additional discounts on passes and individual tickets. The Doc Days pass includes 1 ticket to each premiere Doc Days film screening.

Note that the pass cannot be used towards the purchase of tickets to encore screenings of the Doc Days programs.