Danish-Afghan movie Flee makes history with three Oscar Award nominations
Danish-Afghan movie Flee makes history with three Oscar Award nominations
The film has been nominated for the Best Documentary Feature, International Feature, and Animated Feature categories of the 94th Academy Awards.
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The 94th Academy Awards will be held on 27 March [Getty]
A Danish- animated documentary film Flee was nominated for three - otherwise known as Academy Awards - on Tuesday.
The has made history as the first to land three nominationsÌýfor the Best Documentary Feature, International Feature, and Animated Feature categories of the awards in one year.Ìý
Flee,Ìýdirected byÌýJonas Poher Rasmussen,Ìýtells the real story of a man named Amin - a pseudonymÌý-Ìýwho fleesÌýfrom Afghanistan to Denmark. There he falls in love with another man, which compels him toÌýconfrontÌýhis past for the first time, before getting married and beginningÌýa new life.
The award winning film - starringÌýactors Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh and Milad Eskandari - will compete against nomineesÌýAscension, Attica, Summer of Soul and Writing with Fire forÌýthe Best Documentary Feature award.
For the Best International Feature award, it will compete against nominees Drive My Car, The Hand of God, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,Ìý²¹²Ô»å The Worst Person in the World.
Finally, forÌýthe Best AnimatedÌýFeature award, Flee willÌýcompete against nominees Encanto, Luca, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, and Raya and the Last Dragon.
The Rasmussen-stamped piece of work debuted at the SundanceÌýFilm Festival in January last year and won the Grand Jury Prize in theÌýWorld Cinema Documentary category.
The film was also nominated for four Annie AwardsÌýand two Ìýin the Best Documentary and Best Animated Feature Film categories.
The 94th Academy Awards will be held on 27 March in the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Centre in , America.
Afghanistan has been consumed byÌý since the Taliban returned to power last August, afterÌý to end two decades of war.Ìý
Chaotic scenes during the departure sawÌýIslamic State group militants targetÌýcrowds outside Kabul airports while other Afghans were thrown to their deaths as they clung toÌýplanes flying out ofÌýthe country.
The takeover saw aÌýwave of Afghans fleeing their country in fear of the hardline Islamist group, as the UK Home Office claimed to haveÌý from Afghanistan in the fortnight following the Taliban's resumption of power.
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