Babek Aliassa

Babek Aliassa was born in Iran. He studied architecture in Paris, then cinema at La Fémis. Soon after arriving in Canada in 1996, he settled in Toronto and became involved in its French-speaking artistic community for which he founded the Laboratoire d'art. After directing a short film and two documentaries, he moved to Montreal to make his first feature film, Halal Butcher Shop (2012). The theme... More