In flight movie
It’s two days aft er his first feature made him one of the leading nominees at this year’s Oscars, where his name appears as many times as Jane Campion and Kenneth Branagh. Jonas Poher Rasmussen laughs via Zoom from Copenhagen at the Listener’s first question. Yes, he is quite sober.
“I had a couple of glasses of champagne, but I haven’t really had time to celebrate yet. It has been hectic.”
Rasmussen’s film is the first-person account of Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym) and how leaving Afghanistan as a refugee in his childhood has affected his adult life as a gay man and academic in Denmark. It has been nominated three times – for best animated feature, best international
