Edinburgh International Film Festival will close with the UK premiere of Fremont, directed by BAFTA-nominated director Babak Jalali (whose debut Frontier Blues played EIFF in 2010).

The film centres on troubled 20-something Donya, played in a breakout debut performance by former TV journalist Anaita Wali Zada, who, like her character in the film, was forced to flee Afghanistan. In Fremont, Donya is a former Afghan translator whose work for the U.S. Government has led to her becoming lost and adrift in the titular Californian town.

Donya takes a new job writing the fortunes at a fortune cookie factory and as her messages begin to be read by those throughout the city, her growing sense of longing drives her to send a more profound statement out to the world.

The cast includes Anaita Wala Zada, Jeremy Allen White (The Bear, Shameless U.S.), Gregg Turkington (Ant Man, On Cinema), Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You) and Bettina Devin (An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn). The film is co-written by Carolina Cavalli whose current feature as director is the acclaimed film Amanda.

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