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FREMONT
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2023 3:15 PM
Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
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Admission Child - $7.00

 
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BABAK JALALI | USA | 2023 | 91 MIN | NR | LANGUAGE 

Each morning Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into a regular slot with a therapist (Gregg Turkington) who grasps for prospective role models. When an unexpected promotion at work thrusts Donya into the position to write her own story, she communicates her loneliness and longing through a concise medium: the fortunes inside each cookie. Donya’s koans travel, making a humble social impact and expanding her world far beyond Fremont and her turbulent past, including an encounter with a quiet auto mechanic (Jeremy Allen White) who could stand to see his own world expanded. Tenderly sculpted and lyrically shot in black-and-white, Babak Jalali’s FREMONT is a wry, deadpan vision of the universal longing for home.

Cast: Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White.



Film Info
Event Type:First Run
Release Year:2023
Rating:NR
Production Country:USA
Original Language:ENGLISH
Run Time:88 MIN
Cast/Crew Info
Director:BABAK JALALI
Cast:Anaita Wali Zada
Gregg Turkington
Jeremy Allen White