Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau serve as executive producers on Jonas Poher Rasmussen's distinctive refugee story, a collage of animation and newsreel footage retracing one man's traumatic odyssey to find a home., which explored the cultural dislocation of the refugee experience through a genuinely nerve-rattling horror prism.
Framed through interview sessions with Rasmussen, Amin's recollections glance back to his childhood in Kabul, beginning with black and white charcoal drawings of figures running through the streets of a falling city. He then goes back even earlier to 1984, when he was 3 or 4, pumping A-ha's"Take on Me" through his Walkman as he dances through those same streets in his sister's nightgown, feeling free and unafraid.
But conflicting memories soon cast doubt over that account, as hazy fragments coalesce to recall his flight to multiple destinations, his agonizing limbo in Russia, his first harrowing attempt to travel to Sweden shepherded by unscrupulous human traffickers, his time in a squalid asylum center in Estonia and his eventual hard-won deliverance. The emergence of a much older brother who had fled to Stockholm years earlier also sheds new light.