Review: In the animated doc 'Flee,' a moving portrait of one refugee's journey to confront the past

Amin Nawabi sits for the camera and closes his eyes in the Danish hybrid documentary "Flee" — an intimate portrait of the lasting traumas of displacement and one of the most humane films of the year. He breathes in deeply and the distant memories start trickling out, punctuated in long-ago feelings and details.

First he's a young boy dancing through the streets of 1980s Kabul, carefree as Western pop music blasts from pink headphones on his ears. Later he sits rapt in the backyard of his family home listening to tales