'Flee' Review: Doc Explores the Layers of Truth in Afghan Refugee's Survival Story 'Flee' Review: Doc Explores the Layers of Truth in Afghan Refugee's Survival Story Animation proves an ideal medium by which to both mask and reveal the identity of a gay man who escaped Afghanistan and reinvented himself. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Courtesy of Cinephil Amin Nawabi is not the real name of the Afghan refugee introduced in the Sundance movie “Flee,” nor is that his real face, which has been distorted by animation to protect his identity. As “Flee” unfolds, you may also start to question whether the story Amin shares is even real, doubling back and contradicting itself as it does over the course of director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s unconventional portrait.