Writer-director Jonas Poher Rasmussen's film is the intimate story of pseudonymous subject 'Amin,' who shares his extraordinary escape from Afghanistan as a child refugee.
has become the first movie to earn Oscar nominations for best animated feature, documentary feature and international feature .
The film follows pseudonymous subject “Amin,” who, preparing to marry his husband, shared his extraordinary escape from Afghanistan as a child refugee, which led to the making of this intimate story of his life. Rasmussen has been friends with “Amin” since age 15 when they were in school together in a Danish village. “He grew up in Kabul in a loving home, and then everything was torn to pieces as Russia withdrew from the country and the Taliban took over,” Rasmussen said in a previous interview with. “It started out being a refugee story about trying to find a place in the world where you can be who you are with everything that entails. It’s basically a story about trying to find a home.
Oscar-nominated actor Riz Ahmed was an executive producer and voiced Amin in the English-language version. The film was release in December by Neon and Participant.
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