Nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature 
Amin (Amin Nawabi) is an Afghan refugee living in Copenhagen. He recounts his life fleeing from the Taliban to Moscow, living in a constant state of desperation, his family scraping enough money together to get them piecemeal to Europe. Alone, a minor, Amin has to lie about his background to claim asylum in Denmark. He hides his past from the authorities but he is also hiding who he is from his family. He doesn't know if they will accept him as a gay man. How can he risk the last parts of himself after losing so much?
It's animated to protect Amin's identity and some of the names and places are changed for the same reason. I don't know if it's the first documentary to do this; I seem to remember one a few years ago but I'd have to look it up and I'm lazy. At any rate, it feels novel.
Not going to lie, it's kind of a hard watch. This is a dude recounting the most painful years of his life and it's clear he hasn't fully processed the trauma of it all. It's probably going to win Best Documentary. I don't know yet, because I haven't seen the rest of them, but that's my guess. The Academy loves to see people destroy themselves on film. Anyway, it's currently streaming on Hulu.
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