Babak Jalali’s Fremont Gets A UK Trailer

Earlier this month Babak Jalali’s Fremont closed the returning Edinburgh Film Festival earlier this month. Today Modern Films give us a taster of why it was picked with the film’s UK Trailer.

The film stars Anaita Wali Zada (debut acting performance) who plays Donya. She flees her homeland of Afghanistan, she did work as an translator for the U.S government. Thanks to this led her to Fremont, California lost until she gets a job in a cookie factory. Not packing the cookies but writing the messages that go inside them her messages begin to be read by those throughout the city. Slowly she gets a growing sense of longing which drives her to send a more profound statement out to the world

Fremont is the acting debut of real-life Afghan refugee Anaita Wali Zada, a former broadcast journalist who responded to an open casting call just 8 months after leaving her home country.

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 smoldering longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.

The film also stars Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington, Boots Riley and Bettina Devin. Modern Films is set to release Fremont in the UK and Ireland from 15th September.