FREMONT
FREMONT
BABAK JALALI
2023
year
88
Minutes
SCHEDULE
03.03.2024
/ 10:45 AM/
Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL
05.03.2024
/ 10:15 AM/
Audi 6 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Marjaneh Moghimi, Sudnya Shroff, Rachael Fung, George Rush, Chris Martin, Laura Wagner
Screenplay: Babak Jalali, Carolina Cavalli
Director of Photography: Laura Valladao
Editor: Babak Jalali
Music: Mahmoud Schricke
Sound: Stefano Gross
Cast: Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White, Hilda Schmelling, Avis See-tho, Siddique Ahmed, Taban Ibraz, Timur Nusratty.
Awards - Winner: San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (Special Citation for Independent Cinema), Independent FF of Boston (Grand Jury Prize - Narrative Feature), Sun Valley FF (One In A Million - Narrative)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Sundance FF (NEXT Innovator), Film Independent Spirit Award (Best Breakthrough Performance), British Independent FA (British Independent Film Award)
Director's Biography
BABAK JALALI
Babak Jalali (1978, Iran) moved to London at a young age. After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, he was accepted at the London Film School. His graduation film, HEYDAR, AN AFGHAN IN TEHRAN (2005), received a BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film. In 2009 he made his first feature film, FRONTIER BLUES which won the FIPRESCI prize for best film at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His Iranian background plays a central role in his work.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Indian Cinema Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA