Screening struggles: The most gripping films at the virtual Sundance festival Individual or collective struggles for a better life made for the most affecting movies at the 2021 edition of the festival. A still from Fire in the Mountains. In his novel Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin wrote, “Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.” The same devastating feeling is experienced by Amin Nawabi, the young gay subject of the new documentary Flee (2021), who escaped from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as a child in 1996 and sought asylum in Denmark. He arrives in the new country, having survived the brutality of political upheaval and circuitous human trafficking. It leaves him fast on his feet, slow to trust people, and suspicious of the very “safety” he had been pursuing.