Fremont

Streaming video - 2023

In this poignant comedy, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada), a former Afghan translator for the U.S. government, lives alone in Fremont, California. Working at a Chinese fortune cookie factory and struggling with insomnia, Donya moves through her days in solitude. One day, her loneliness and longing drive her to slip a personal message into a cookie, which sparks a hopeful shift in her routine.Directed by Babak Jalali (Radio Days), Fremont blends deadpan humor with poetic restraint, offering a gentle, bittersweet meditation on loneliness, dislocation, and the quiet desire for connection. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Music Box Films 2023.
2026.
Language
English
Other Authors
Babak Jalali (film director), Anaita Wali Zada (actor), Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
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Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).