ONE DAY THIS KID

18 min, 35mm, 2024

Writer/Director: Alexander Farah

Producer: Joaquin Cardoner
Production Company: Wallop Film, Boldly

One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn’t mathematical. One day this kid will talk.


2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
2024 Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada)
2024 Festival du nouveau cinema (Canada)
2024 AFI Fest (USA)

 

MEET YOU AT THE LIGHT

6 min, 16mm, 2021


Writer/Director: Alexander Farah

Producer: Shyam Valera, Kashif Pasta
Production Company: Wallop Film, Dunya Media


A bittersweet and heartfelt portrait of a daughter and her ailing father. Performed by Ishaval Gill and her father Kamaldevinder Gill.


2022 Grand Jury Award for Best Music Video, SXSW
2022 Audience Choice Award for Best Music Video, SXSW
2022 International Grand Prix & Best MV, Kinsale Shark Awards
2023 UK Music Video Award - Nominee - Best International Pop Video

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MOTHERLAND

24 min, 16mm, 2023

Director: Jasmin Mozaffari
Producers: Caitlin Grabham & Priscilla Galvez
Executive Producer: Arian Moayed


Editor: Alexander Farah

During 1979 at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiance's parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.

2023 Best Canadian Short Film, Toronto International Film Festival
2024 Best Drama, Aspen Shortsfest
2024 Best Short Film, Canadian Screen Awards
2024 Best Drama, Hollyshorts Film Festival

FYC Best Live Action Short - Academy Awards 2024

 

LAY ME BY THE SHORE

18 min, 35mm & 65mm, 2022

Director: David Findlay
Producer: Joaquin Cardoner


Editor: Alexander Farah

A week in the life of Noah, a high school senior in his final days of school as he comes to terms with his best friend’s passing.

2022 Berlinale - Generation
2022 Toronto International Film Festival
2022 Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival

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SAHAR

14 min, Digital, 2014



Writer/Director: Alexander Farah

Producer: Alireza Taale

Nadim recounts the night his sister came home at four in the morning and disappeared shortly after.


Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Best Director & Best Actor, Vancouver Short Film Festival 2014

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SOFT

87 min, Digital, 2022

Director: Joseph Amenta
Producers: Alexandra Roberts, Daniel Sedore


Editor: Alexander Farah


Follows three adolescent friends who become enraptured in the queer nightlife scene over summer break before a missing persons pulls them back into the reality they have chosen to leave behind.


2022 Toronto International Film Festival
2022 Best Film of the Festival, Chilliwack Independent FF
2023 Best International Feature Film, Nordic International FF
2023 Best Feature Film, Translations Seattle Film Festival

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BAD OMEN

19 min, Digital, 2020

Director/Producer: Salar Pashtoonyar


Editor: Alexander Farah

Set in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses to save her job.


2020 Best Canadian Short Film, Vancouver International Film Festival
2021 Student Academy Awards - Bronze
2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
2021 Telluride Film Festival
2021 Canadian Screen Award Nominee - Best Short Film

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MOEDER

20 min, 35mm, 2023



Director: Salomon Ligthelm


Co-Editors: Alexander Farah, Yurri Karih, Salomon Ligthelm


Based on a true story from the borderlines of the war by Russia on Ukraine, the film tells the story of Vitaly Ivanov - a miner on the Ukraine/Russian border who discovers a ringing phone - and tragically so much more - in his backyard.


2023 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
2022 Winner, Best New World, Tirana International Film Festival

 

VIRTUOUS CIRCLE

6 min , 16mm, 2019


Director: Farhad Ghaderi
Producer: Shelby Manton


Editor: Alexander Farah

An exploration of the joys and pains of brotherhood through the volatile relationship between a young boy and his self-destructive older brother.


2022 Gold Screen Music Video
2020 Best Music Video, SF Indie Shorts Festival
2020 Best Music Video, Shiny Awards 2020.
2020 UK Music Video Award - Nominee - Best Alternative Newcomer

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FOUND ME

9 min, Digital, 2020

Director: David Findlay
Producer: Joaquin Cardoner


Editor: Alexander Farah

Winter drags on, but when a young man stumbles upon the dynamic world of underground wrestling his life takes a turn, in this remarkably impressive exploration of self that pushes boundaries and blurs genre expectations.

2020 Toronto International Film Festival

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GOLDEN LADDER

5 min, 16mm, 2021

Director: Farhad Ghaderi
Producers: Joaquin Cardoner, Shelby Manton


Editor: Alexander Farah

A reflection on the lives of a woman and her mother, as they heal in the face of intergenerational trauma.


2021 EnergaCAMERIMAGE Nominee, Best Music Video

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PRETEXT

8 min, 16mm, 2018

Written/Directed by Minhal Baig
Producers: Elizabeth B. Bates, Halee Bernard

Editor: Alexander Farah

A young woman confronts her sexual assailant.

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