FREMONT
2024
Beautiful and troubled 20-something Donya, an Afghan translator who used to work with the U.S. government, has trouble sleeping. She lives by herself in Fremont in a building with other Afghan immigrants and often dines alone at a local restaurant watching soap operas. Her routine changes when she’s promoted to writing the fortunes at her job at a fortune cookie factory in the city. As her fortunes are read by strangers throughout the Bay, Donya’s longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.
DIRECTOR
Babak Jalali
KEY CAST
Anaita Wali Zada
Gregg Turkington
Jeremy Allen White
WRITERS
Babak Jalali
Carolina Cavalli
PRODUCERS
Marjaneh Moghimi
Sudnya Shroff
Rachael Fung
Laura Wagner
Chris Martin
George Rush
“A cross-cultural comedy that explores the freedom of being lost and the exhilaration of finding oneself.”
Los Angeles Times
“Deceptively placid, supremely wry… and so damned moving”
Rolling Stone
“Wali Zada’s gaze is a form of language, too, and by the end of Fremont, it’s her emotional fluency that we all understand.”
Vulture
“Fremont has the feel of a hip indie movie from the 1980s heyday of Jim Jarmusch: shot in black and white with a wry, absurdist eye.”
Financial Times