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Innovative storytellg brgs the tale of a gay Afghan refugee to improbably exhilaratg life.

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MR GAY SYRIA

* refugee gay film *

The rt of the fay attempted to flee to the Wt, and Am beme separated om his mother and siblgs, makg eventually to Denmark as a gay teenager, alone, speakg no Danish.

STUNNG OSR-NOMATED MOVIE 'FLEE' NARRAT THE HARROWG TALE OF AN AFGHAN GAY REFUGEE

The award-wng documentary 'Flee,' directed by Jonas Poher Rasmsen, animatn to tell a gay Afghan man's story of survival. * refugee gay film *

In the terviews, Am told his iend of growg up gay Afghanistan where homosexualy brought shame on a fay.

A thrillg documentary ma wh a blend of animatn and archive footage tells an immensely powerful tale of a gay Afghan survivor * refugee gay film *

Am relled that after he was rettled Denmark, he told adults he wanted to take a pill to “cure” himself of beg gay.

It’s been really amazg to see how people n relate to the story, even if they’re not refuge or gay… And I know really means a lot to Am, bee he’s kept a secret for so many years.

Am is an Afghan refugee, now livg wh his fiance Denmark, who agre to share how he ma his way om war-torn Kabul the 80s to now, livg a settled, open life as a gay man, one he’d never thought was possible. The followg years are then told piec: fearful enunters wh rpt Rsian police, sperate attempts to smuggle the fay b by b to Europe and Am realisg, then hidg his burgeong sexualy as a gay teen, fearful of the nsequenc of beg Rasmsen animat the majory of the film, there are also terspersed montag of archival footage, ftly rmg of the basics of the polil chaos that surrounds Am’s life both Afghanistan and Rsia. There’s also an unimagable burn, a feelg that he mt always prove his worth, a rponsibily to his fay to succeed, an obssn wh his reer that we see g tensns his are sequenc of almost unbearable spense, as Am tri to fd safety, and furiatg jtice, as traffickers and officials take advantage, but also poignant liberatn, as Am steps to his first gay club, a scene of joyo fort, the saft haven after so much strife.

Mr Gay Syria: Directed by Ayse Toprak. Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refuge who are tryg to rebuild their liv. He is a barber Istanbul, livg a double life between his nservative fay and his gay inty. Mahmoud is the founr of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee Berl. What brgs them together is a dream: to participate an ternatnal bety ntt as an pe om their trapped liv and an answer to their visibily. Will the dream e te or will the refugee crisis and the harsh nsequenc of beg gay the Mlim world shatter to piec?" data-id="ma * refugee gay film *

Am’s life has volved so much supprsn, both as an immigrant and as a gay man, that his inty has bee such a nfg nstct.

Directed by Jonah Poher Rasmsen, the productn creatively tells the te story of a gay Afghan refugee through timate terviews and animatn, which both protect the inty of s subject, "Am, " and allow for breathtakg visuals the rult is a movg portra of a person's heartbreak and rilience as he fle om turmoil Afghanistan, to Rsia, to Denmark as a youth wh his fay members. And along the way, he of age as a gay person.

Flee is the extraordary story of reprsed memori om Am, a gay refugee who fled the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. * refugee gay film *

In his childhood, he uldn't be gay bee that wasn't possible Afghanistan. Also, I had the same prejudice as I thk most people have about beg gay a Mlim fay and even Am had agast his own fay. Jt as you were sayg that Am beg a refugee isn’t somethg that’s a pletely fg feature, siarly him beg gay—even though ’s an important part of him—don’t entirely fe him eher.

“Am me out to me when we were both 16, so to me, him beg gay was a very natural part of who he was and I thought, ‘this needs to feel the same the film’.

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