There's a first at the Oscars this year - a movie that's been nominated for Best Animated, Best Foreign and Best Documentary.
It's called Flee.
Winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year sent Danish film Flee on an awards-heavy global domination of the festival circuit.
It's now up for three Oscars and you can see why at a cinema near you.
Animation is not just the realm of the younger generation and Flee uses it to help tell the true story of Afghan refugee Amin. The result is a rich, potent emotional experience.
Amin slowly reveals his story as a child in the fall of Kabul. Coming of age as an illegal immigrant in Moscow, he's now a grown man living in Copenhagen. His truth he has buried deep inside, threatening his relationships and his fragile happiness.
Flee is a beautiful film, an opportunity to experience a childhood steeped in persecution and powerlessness, and the scars that leaves with the power to remind those of us gifted with the freedoms we have what the word 'freedom' really means.
Four-and-a-half stars.
