01-12-2026, 11:17 PM
This is a critically acclaimed indie, shot in B&W, set in the city where we bought a house, raised our kid, and sold a house, as well as where I worked for 20 years.
It’s a soft spoken film about an Afghan woman living in Fremont and working in SF Chinatown at my dream job, writing fortune cookies. It’s modest, low budget, but some clearly recognizable shots of Fremont BART & Chinatown. Fremont is nicknamed Little Kabul for a small section of old town that’s home to a large Afghani community. The film is a study in loneliness and ennui, about being an outsider and the search for identity and meaning. Where many old B&W films mastered contrast and texture, this film uses it to make everything more drab; it’s a well played device, brilliantly and subtly executed. The film is without soundtrack wifh a lot of awkward silences. It’s a mood.
I rather enjoyed this for its style and my old ‘hood, but I won’t D00M reccomend it as it’s just not a D00M kinda film.
Seen on Hoopla
It’s a soft spoken film about an Afghan woman living in Fremont and working in SF Chinatown at my dream job, writing fortune cookies. It’s modest, low budget, but some clearly recognizable shots of Fremont BART & Chinatown. Fremont is nicknamed Little Kabul for a small section of old town that’s home to a large Afghani community. The film is a study in loneliness and ennui, about being an outsider and the search for identity and meaning. Where many old B&W films mastered contrast and texture, this film uses it to make everything more drab; it’s a well played device, brilliantly and subtly executed. The film is without soundtrack wifh a lot of awkward silences. It’s a mood.
I rather enjoyed this for its style and my old ‘hood, but I won’t D00M reccomend it as it’s just not a D00M kinda film.
Seen on Hoopla
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