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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
It’s fitting that Flee is an animation. The film is classified as a documentary, and it manages to capture the details of life in Afghanistan. The brassy tea kettles, the tall metal doors, the rooftop pigeon races, the posters of Western action stars on the walls of teenagers and the rows and rows of houses along the crisscrossing streets are all there. But the film, which is up for the best-animated feature, documentary feature and international feature awards at this year’s Oscars, contains multitudes. It’s about war. It’s about refugee life. It’s about the Cold War. It’s about a young man c…
