The international-film category was once littered with feel-good stories about the relationship between an older person and a child, such as “Madame Rosa,” “Pelle the Conqueror,” “Burnt by the Sun”…
Three of the films even broke out of the international film race, with “Drive My Car” drawing noms for best pic, adapted screenplay and director; “Flee” also earned nominations for animation and doc, while “The Worst Person in the World” nabbed a nom in original screenplay.
Aside from scoring a rare triple nominations, “Flee” also ticks off three boxes — multicultural suspicion; the European refugee crisis; and LGBTQ+ prejudice. The film is set in a remote Himalayan village. “There aren’t many people who have experienced Lunana, and Lunana hasn’t experienced the world. However, within that diversity, the story touches upon this universal human quality of seeking home, seeking where one belongs. I think this is what has helped our film, within all the diversity the film exhibits, the audience connects with what they have been desperately longing for, in a world that lacks that at the moment.
Filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen met “Flee” protag Amin some 25 years ago when they were both in school. While there were rumors then that Amin had seen his family shot down in Afghanistan, Rasmussen was grateful to be given the opportunity to tell the Afghan’s real story . “We are exposed to so many of these stories in the media that a lot of people have a tendency to block these out,” he says, including himself in that number. “You can take everything in, but then you cannot wake up in the morning.”
“Drive My Car” director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted the Haruki Murakami story and says through an interpreter: “I found Misaki to be a very appealing character, someone who I thought I would want to depict in the film, but in the film she is actually more developed than she is in the short story. In the short story she is primarily a supporting character, but in the film her existence is a bit larger.
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