The ordinary horror of losing your home Life's always hard for refugees, and in many ways, 'Flee' tells a very ordinary refugee's story. The central figure's family are not all killed, he isn't enslaved, raped, or locked in a metal container, eventually he makes it to Denmark and settles down to a successful life. One complication is that he is gay, but that's a minor part of the overall tale. Overall, the story is un-extraordinary and yet compelling, a reminder of just how easy those of us not born in war zones have it compared to those who are. Indeed, I would have liked to hear more about the process of establishing yourself in a new country when you arrive without money, contacts, or the local language, a chapter in that is rather skipped over in the narrative. What makes this film distinctive as a documentary is that for visuals, it relies mostly not on talking heads, reconstructions, or archive footage, but on animation. For the historical action this makes sense; but when we see animated images of the protagonist talking to the film-maker, I'm struck by how much less interesting a drawn face is compared with a real human one. Overall, I found the story less affecting than Michael Winterbottom's 'In This World', in which he reconstructed a refugees journey on film. It's worth watching nonetheless.