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DANISH FILMMAKER JONAS Poher Rasmussen has been friends with Afghan refugee Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym) since they went to school together. But it wasn’t until years later that Amin was ready to relate the full story of how he and his family fled Kabul for Moscow in 1989, where they spent years trying to escape to the West. It’s an astonishing, emotive, timely tale, made only more remarkable by the fact that, in respecting Amin’s request for anonymity, Rasmussen chose to vividly animate it. “We had many more possibilities with animation than we would have had if we just did it live-action with a camera,” Rasmussen tells Empire. Here, he selects five moments where those possibilities truly came alive.