Free from flee: how a filmmaker helped a gay Afghan refugee find peace

Jonas Poher Rasmussen tells the story of ‘Amin Nawabi’, who fled for Denmark as a teen after his family was killed

08 February 2022 - 19:41 By Hanna Rantala

When filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 years old, an Afghan teenager arrived in his rural Danish village. Word got out the youngster had fled after his entire family was killed and he had made the long journey to the Scandinavian country on foot...

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