Fremont - Film screening and discussion (Refugee Week 2025)

Rethink Rebuild Society in partnership with Stockport Homes Group invites you to a screening of the film:

Fremont (2023)
Directed by Babak Jalali and cowritten by Carolina Cavalli

Runtime: 70 minutes
Certificate: 12A
Language: English, Cantonese, Dari
Themes: Afghanistan, Survivor’s guilt, Comedy
At: Rethink Rebuild Society, First Floor, Discovery House, Crossley Road, Stockport, SK4 5BH

On: Friday 20 June 2025 at 7pm

Please arrive on time as the screening will start at 7.10 pm promptly.


The film:
A moving and hilarious comedy-drama starring Anaita Wali Zada and The Bear’s Emmy award-winning Jeremy Allen White. Donya, a young Afghan who moved to Fremont, California after serving as a translator for the American army, spends her days working at a fortune cookie factory and her nights wide awake battling between her desire to rebuild her life and the overbearing guilt she carries within. In a bid to connect with the world, she sends an unconventional message through a fortune cookie.


This partnership and film screening is during Refugee Week 2025:

Refugee Week is the worlds largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of people seeking sanctuary. The theme for Refugee Week 2025 is “Community as a Superpower,” celebrating the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force!

Event Date: 
Friday, 20 June, 2025
Venue: 
Rethink Rebuild Society
First Floor, Discovery House, Crossley Rd
SK4 5BH
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