‘Flee’ Review: Doc Explores the Layers of Truth in Afghan Refugee’s Survival Story

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Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel isn't exactly famous, but it's definitely notorious. Which means that if you're not from L.A.

Anyone who’s ever gotten fed up with their hair and tried to find an unorthodox hack to fix it, well… something tells us they’ll think twice now.

EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales firm AMP International has joined forces with new LA-based genre start-up Fearworks on horror The Elevator Game, which has long-time American Horror Story DoP Michael Goi attached to direct.

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe Rotterdam Film Festival’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart came to a close on Friday with awards for projects from Greece, China and Afghanistan, including the latest work from Kabul-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat.

Just as Waltz with Bashir did 13 years ago, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen robustly reaffirms in Flee that animation can be used not just for amusement but for any purpose, in this case to tell the harrowing story of what some refugees from Afghanistan went through in order to forge new lives in the West.

Also Read: Magnolia Pictures Acquires French Love Story 'Two of Us'Madeleine and Nina have planned to sell their apartments and retire together to Italy, but Madeleine has two children, Anne (Léa Drucker) and Frédéric (Jérôme Varanfrain), and she has never managed to tell them that she is in a relationship with Nina.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure DealMade lucid in hand-drawn animated form, Amin’s memories are expressed in two distinguishable styles: The most traumatic, and thus the foggiest, appear through rough lines in muted black-and-white, like an apparition barely visible in the mist of his subconscious, but with tangible sensorial impact. That minimalist approach changes for sequences in the present and the larger part of the past.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her Golden Globe and SAG nominations for The Crown, we can reveal that Gillian Anderson is next to star in Lionsgate and director Marc Forster’s White Bird: A Wonder Story, which will begin production in the Czech Republic later this month.

Watch Video: How 'In the Same Breath' Director Got Multiple Camera Crews in Wuhan to Shoot COVID DocAs with previous efforts such as “One Child Nation” or “I Am Another You,” the director embeds her personal stakes as they relate to the subject matter. Rather than being an impartial observant, Wang shares her fears after traveling to her hometown with her family around the time Wuhan went under lockdown on January 23, 2020.

Angelique Jackson Participant has partnered with NEON on the North American distribution of Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary “Flee” after its Sundance debut.The film, a largely animated documentary about the life of a gay Afghan refugee, earned the grand jury prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition category on Tuesday night, just hours after the new partnership was announced.“We were awestruck by Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s beautiful and intimate Flee and are so proud to join with NEON

Beanie Feldstein, 27, must have had onlookers fooled while filming the role of Monica Lewinsky, 47, on the set of Impeachment: American Crime Story on Feb. 1.

Jessica Kiang Mahmud is on his cellphone and he can’t get through. It’s the first image in Hogar Hirori’s startling “Sabaya,” an intense, deeply embedded documentary following the painstaking and perilous rescue of Yazidi women (a Kurdish religious minority), from enslavement by ISIS, aka Daesh.

Netflix true crime documentary investigating the real-life hotel that inspired American Horror Story is set to arrive next week.Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel lands on the streaming service on February 10.A synopsis of the show reads: “From housing serial killers to untimely deaths, the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles is known to many as LA’s deadliest hotel.“The latest chapter in the Cecil’s dark history involves the mysterious disappearance of college student Elisa Lam.”See

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticEver since “Man on Wire,” in 2008, more and more documentaries have been using visualizations, staged scenes, and other illustrative methods that are meant to bring a true story to life but, to my mind, often end up getting in the way of it. I tend to prefer my documentaries without a speck of cereal, and that made the early sections of “Misha and the Wolves” seem a bit of a challenge.

Edgar Wright, the British director behind Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, is a big fan of Sparks, the enigmatic pop band known for hits such as This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us and When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’.

One of the most exciting international discoveries of last year's Sundance festival was His House, which explored the cultural dislocation of the refugee experience through a genuinely nerve-rattling horror prism.

Ed Meza @edmezavarDanish-German company Adomeit Film is set to explore uncharted territory with what could be the world’s first romantic comedy set in Afghanistan.Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “Kabul Jan,” the third part in a planned pentalogy based on co-writer Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical work, follows a young camera operator who falls in love with a married TV reporter twice her age.Set in the biggest private TV station in Kabul, the story explores the forbidden romance while also examining the

Amin Nawabi is an Afghan refugee living in Denmark. He has a successful career and a boyfriend.