Monday Night Movie: "Fremont"

Program Type:

Films

Age Group:

Adults
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Darien Library presents a new weekly program: Monday Night at the Movies!

This week we are showing “Fremont.”

“Each morning Donya leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into a regular slot with a therapist who grasps for prospective role models. When an unexpected promotion at work thrusts Donya into the position to write her own story, she communicates her loneliness and longing through a concise medium: the fortunes inside each cookie.”– Music Box Films

Director: Babak Jalali

Year: 2023

Starring: Anaita Wali Zada as Donya, Gregg Turkington as Dr. Anthony, Jeremy Allen White as Daniel, Hilda Schmelling as Joanna, Avis See-tho as Fan, Siddique Ahmed as Salim, Taban Ibraz as Mina, Timur Nusratty as Suleyman, Eddie Tang as Ricky and Jennifer McKay as Lin.

This movie is one hour and 31 minutes and is not rated.

Watch the official trailer.

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