Het Puntje x Movies that Matter: Flee

• Date: 31 July
• Time: 20:00 - 22:00
• Location: Het Puntje

This summer, together with beach club Het Puntje, we are organizing a film festival at the very tip of Scheveningen! Three evenings with three films that invite reflection, conversation and connection.

On Thursday, July 31, the film Flee (2021) will be shown. Amin fled Afghanistan as a boy and years later ends up in Denmark. For the first time, he tells his life story. A painful, intimate portrait in animation form that interweaves questions of identity, migration and sexual orientation.

About the film

No one knows his exact flight story, not even his partner. Yet director Jonas Poher Rasmussen gets his schoolmate Amin to talk about the path he took from 1980s Afghanistan to today's Denmark. With the promise that he can remain completely anonymous.

Rasmussen provides that by largely animating his sometimes raging, sometimes moving story. In hand-drawn 2D animations, he outlines Amin's journey through the no-man's land between citizen and illegal, past corrupt Russian agents and inhuman human smugglers, living with endless boredom and life-threatening tension.

But more than that, Flee shows how a person is mentally shaped under these circumstances: hiding yourself does not stop once you have the right papers. Amin, a businessman and homosexual, has been forced to construct a false identity, which here safely hidden behind animations he finally, slowly but surely, dares to shed.

Program

The film will be accompanied by an after-party discussion led by Jesse Evers and a musical performance by Meyendel. Jesse moves between policy and poetry. As a musician at Meyendel he sings about what chafes, as a consultant at TwynstraGudde he helps governments not to lose - or regain - the trust of inhabitants. He taught Conflict Studies at the UvA and studied at SciencesPo in Paris, with a focus on Africa studies and international cooperation. Always curious about the power of communities in times of great social change.

Practical information

• Date: Thursday, July 31, 8 p.m.
• Language and subtitles: Dutch
• Admission: €9.79 (excl. service charge)
• Tickets: buy your ticket through Het Puntje
• Location: De Komma (the annex of Het Puntje), Strand Noord 3N, 2586 ZZ The Hague. See here how to get to the location. Feel like having something to eat before the movie at Het Puntje? Then come on time, preferably an hour in advance or earlier, so you can enjoy your meal in peace and everything will be ready in time.

This screening is made possible by Fonds 1818.

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