Fremont

Name: Fremont
Genre: Drama
Released: August 25, 2023
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Anaita Wali Zada, Avis See-tho, Eddie Tang, Hilda Schmelling, Jennifer McKay

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Music Box Films | Release Date: August 25, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Anaita Wali Zada, Avis See-tho, Eddie Tang, Hilda Schmelling, Jennifer McKay, Jeremy Allen White, Neil Hamburger, Siddique Ahmed, Taban Ibraz, Timur Nusratty

Summary: 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, California, 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 theBeautiful 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, California, 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 smoldering longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.… Expand

Director: Babak Jalali

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Jul 18, 2023

Crafted with stillness, empathy, and clever drollness, “Fremont” is so striking it will simply and calmly demand your attention. So seemingly introverted, humble, and unassuming, it’ll force you to lean in, listen and heed all the humorous words of wisdom in its many little moments of providence. Read full review

David Fear

Sep 1, 2023

Fremont is neither game-changing nor revolutionary. It’s merely a throwback, in the best possible way, to a low-fi aesthetic and low-key way of storytelling you thought had gone the way of the Triceratops. That, in fact, is what makes this deceptively placid, supremely wry movie so damned moving. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Sep 15, 2023

You’ll remember Anaita Wali Zada’s eyes. As Donya, an Afghan refugee in the wry and wistful Fremont, the first-time actor is a steadily building wave, a maelstrom of intention and purpose. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jul 18, 2023

Despite trafficking in a wide array of Sundance tropes — from its modest but ethereal monochrome cinematography by DP Laura Valladao, to Mahmood Schricker’s Sqürl-adjacent guitar score — Fremont is always more delicate than it is precious and mercifully never quite as cute as it sounds. Read full review

Screen Rant Rachel LaBonte

Sep 15, 2023

Those willing to embark on Fremont's modest, gently heartbreaking journey will find themselves rewarded by what it has to offer. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Aug 31, 2023

Jalali maintains a mysterious ambiguity, but Wali Zada conveys what matters. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Sep 12, 2023

Fremont has the demeanor of a kitchen-sink drama but is laced with deadpan absurdism. Read full review

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