A wedding date becomes the reason one man finally has to say out loud what he has spent his whole adult life keeping hidden.
What is Flee about?
Flee tells the true story of a man named Amin, who as he approaches marriage finds himself compelled, for the first time, to speak openly about a past he has never fully shared with anyone close to him. Told through animation rather than conventional documentary footage, the film uses that distance to let Amin describe experiences he might not have been able to put into words on camera. The result is a first-person account built around memory itself: what gets said aloud after years of silence, and what it costs to finally say it. Rather than building toward a single dramatic reveal, the film treats the act of remembering as its own kind of tension, letting the story unfold at the pace its subject can actually bear to tell it.
About the cast
The voices behind Amin and the people in his life are drawn from a cast that includes Rashid Aitouganov, Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz, Elaha Faiz, Zahra Mehrwarz, and Sadia Faiz. Their performances carry the film's emotional weight even as the animated frame keeps a layer of protective distance between the audience and the people speaking.
Context & significance
Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen and released in 2021, Flee is a documentary built through animation, a co-production spanning Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. That international backing reflects how the film's subject matter and its unconventional format found support across festival and documentary circles far beyond a single national industry.
Watching Flee on Ktime
Flee is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the choice between a Farsi-language version and the original with Farsi text on screen. The page can be read for free, and watching the film only requires logging into a K-Time account, on a platform shaped around the Farsi-speaking diaspora.