Alexander Farah
Editing
Known For

Three adolescent boys become captivated by the queer nightlife over summer break, but a missing person pulls them back into the reality they tried to leave behind.
Soft

Set after the events of the original cartoon series "Recess", this fan film takes a look at the characters in high school.
Recess: Third Street

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

As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while always conscious of his father's shadow.
One Day This Kid

A young woman confronts her sexual assailant.
Pretext

The last exams at school, everyone is in a celebratory mood. The teenager Noah is one of them - but he’s often thrown out of this happy mood and overtaken by tormenting memories. In dazzling snapshots cut against each other, the trauma of the death of a friend is vividly experienced.
Lay Me by the Shore

A day in the life of a tenacious teenage girl as she pursues her dream of becoming a socially-conscious slam poet.
Toward You

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

Groups of Tibetan immigrants from small communities work in a Canadian laundry facility- mostly strangers to each other, but all part of a broader wave of Tibetan immigration that took place roughly between 2011 and 2017. With their social circles suddenly expanded, new romantic entanglements arise.