

Fremont
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $601.6K
- Language
- Cantonese
- immigrant
- california
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- san francisco, california
- afghanistan
- fortune cookie
- oakland, california
- black and white
- racial prejudice
- translator
- us military
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IndiaIN
- PremiereJio MAMI Film Festival27 Oct 2023
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival20 Jan 2023
- PremiereSouth by Southwest Film & TV Festival11 Mar 2023
- Theatrical (limited)NR25 Aug 2023
- Digital / OTTNR10 Oct 2023
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A15 Sept 2023
AustraliaAU
- PremierePGMelbourne International Film Festival - rating from https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/fremont6 Aug 2023
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival6 Jul 2023
- Theatrical12+14 Sept 2023
FranceFR
- PremiereDeauville Film Festival7 Sept 2023
- Theatrical6 Dec 2023
GermanyDE
- Theatrical9 Nov 2023
IndonesiaID
- PremiereJakarta World Cinema Week14 Nov 2023
- PremiereJogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival2 Dec 2023
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical925 Jul 2024
PolandPL
- Theatrical (limited)24 Jan 2025
- Digital / OTTMax21 Mar 2025
SwedenSE
- TheatricalBtl7 Jun 2024
SwitzerlandCH
- Theatrical19 Oct 2023
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Fremont was released on 25 August 2023.
Audience reviews
3- B6/10
Brent Marchant
9/9/2023
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 help fix it. But who are we to turn to if we have few friends and no family for meaningful, helpful guidance? Peers? Co-workers? A psychiatrist? Such is the fate of Donya (Anita Wali Zada), an Afghan transplant living i…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/22/2023
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 maker "Donya" (a strong performance from Anaita Wali Zada). She was an interpreter for the US military in her native Afghanistan and has arrived in California on a special visa scheme and is awaiting proper settlement. …
- B10/10
badelf
1/11/2025
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, an Afghan refugee working in a fortune cookie factory, navigates her new life with a quiet, determined resilience. Take the moment her Chinese factory owners gift her a deer—seemingly random, until you understand the…
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