A FILM billed as ‘delightfully warm and comically offbeat’ is being screened twice for free in Redditch and Bromsgrove as part of Refugee Week 2025 which starts on Monday and runs until next Sunday (June 16 to 22).
The 90-minute comedy Fremont tells the tale of Donya, an Afghan refugee trying to rebuild her life in San Francisco after leaving her home country where she worked as a translator for the US military.
She is working in a factory making Chinese fortune cookies until she sneaks her own personal message into one of those cookies and her adventure unfolds.
The story strongly resonates with Afghan families currently being supported by Bromsgrove and Redditch Welcome Refugees, as they integrate into local communities.
In Bromsgrove the performance is on Tuesday June 17 at the Bromsgrove Methodist Church Centre on Stratford Road starting at 7pm.
And in Redditch, the showings are at 4.30pm on Thursday, June 19, at Redditch Library and at 6pm on Friday, June 20, at The Ecumenical Centre at 6pm.
There will be question-and-answer sessions after each screening.
Refugee Week, which this year has the theme ‘community as a superpower’ is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.
