Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
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Nicely shot in b&w with nice shots of Fremont that made the world seem big. The angsty, almost silent performance by Zada didn’t really do it for me but I’m sure others liked it. I loved seeing Gregg Turkington as the White Fang obsessed therapist. Another treat was seeing Lip/The Bear play a robot. Full review is at the link: https://archreviews.substack.com/p/sundance-part-1-of-3