29/01/2024 - Besides the drama by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s Norwegian doc A New Kind of Wilderness has snagged the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize
Just as Waltz with Bashir did 13 years ago, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen robustly reaffirms in Flee that animation can be used not just for amusement but for any purpose, in this case to tell the harrowing story of what some refugees from Afghanistan went through in order to forge new lives in the West.