About
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Rating and Reviews
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6.429/10
badelf
Fremont: A Cinematic Tone Poem of Displacement and Possibility In Babak Jalali's Fremont, cinema becomes poetry — a delicate cartography of human longing mapped across monochrome landscapes. Sahar,... read more
6 months ago
CinemaSerf
This starts off with what has to be slowest, least efficient, example of the industrialisation process that I've ever seen! Those images rather set the scene for what follows as we meet fortune cookie... read more
almost 2 years ago
Brent Marchant
Life can be so confusing at times that we really don’t know where we stand with it, other than having a clear sense that what we’re experiencing isn’t working and that we desperately need direction to... read more
almost 2 years ago
People
Cast
Anaita Wali Zada
Donya
Jeremy Allen White
Daniel
Gregg Turkington
Dr. Anthony
Hilda Schmelling
Joanna
Siddique Ahmed
Salim
Taban Ibraz
Mina
Avis See-tho
Fan
Timur Nusratty
Suleyman
Eddie Tang
Ricky
Jennifer McKay
Lin
Divya Jakatdar
Amaya
Fazil Seddiqui
Aziz
Molly Noble
Molly
Enoch Ku
Jason
Corey Seaver
Fortune Cookie Delivery Man
Boots Riley
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Director
Babak Jalali
Director
Elaine Marie Gibson
Assistant Director
Hillary Pierce
Second Assistant Director
Creator
Carolina Cavalli
Writer
Babak Jalali
Writer
