Crystal Globe Competition 2023 / Fremont / USA 2023
Getting up after a sleepless night, greeting neighbours, going to work, where she spends her days making fortune cookies. This is the life of Donya, an Afghan immigrant who has now made her home in Fremont, USA. Loneliness and insomnia are problems the young woman is trying to address, initially on her own and later with the help of a quirky therapist. It’s unclear whether it’s harder for her to come to terms with her traumatic past or with her current unsettled existence. Will Donya find a solution by hiding a message in one of the thousands of fortune cookies that get sent out? A lightly wistful comedy about a quest of self-discovery that asks whether refugee status is a condition of geographical location or whether it’s a state of mind. It’s also a film about hope coming along when we least expect it.
Anna Kořínek
91 min / Black & white, DCP
International premiere
Director Babak Jalali
/ Screenplay Carolina Cavalli, Babak Jalali
/ Dir. of Photography Laura Valladao
/ Music Mahmoud Schricker
/ Sound Stefano Gross
/ Editor Babak Jalali
/ Art Director Rob Riutta
/ Producer Marjaneh Moghimi, Sudnya Shroff, Rachael Fung, George Rush, Chris Martin, Laura Wagner
/ Production Butimar
/ Coproduction Extra A Productions
/ Cast Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White
/ Sales Memento International
Babak Jalali (1978, Gorgan, Iran). Filmography: Frontier Blues (2009), Radio Dreams (2016), Land (2018), Fremont (2023).
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Babak Jalali
Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Rachael Fung
Producer
Sudnya Shroff
Producer
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