Review of Flee

Really good animated feature film about a young gay man who is fleeing from Afghanistan. Every so often it's inter-cut with some archive film, including scenes of pre-war Kabul, and it's sort of shocking how modern the dress and the shops look. Lots of happy, smiling young women in modern dress on the streets and on public transport. There are also some scenes from what must be Communist Party congresses, with lots of uniformed mustachioed men single The Internationale. And without wanting to romanticise the period of Communist rule, it's hard not to wonder where all those men went, and whether any of them are still there as the potential constituency for a very different kind of Afghanistan.

But it's mainly about the experience of being a displaced refugee, and it's grim and very effective. 

Watched via informal distribution.