Norwegian filmmaker Egil Håskjold Larsen on ’69 Minutes Of 86 Days’, a refugee documentary focussed on humanity, not horror By the time Norwegian film-maker Egil Håskjold Larsen met three-year-old Lean, she and her family had been through a lot. They had spent the last four years, all of Lean’s life, in war-torn Syria, from which they had tried and failed escape—twice. They had lost everything they owned, and many of their loved ones had been killed. But that wasn’t the story Larsen wanted to tell. That story, while important, was already told. Instead, he set out to show a side of the refugee crisis that anyone could relate to on a deeply personal level.

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