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Short Narrative

One Day This Kid

Screenings
  • Open captions in-person Open Captions
  • Trigger warning: Maternal death Trigger Warning
A film still from One Day This Kid shows a young boy standing in a body of water. He looks off into the distance at something off screen with an emotionless face. Everything around the boy is out of focus, including the side profile of a man who stands behind him.

Screenings

In-Person

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.

Directors Spotlight

Alexander Farah

Director

Alexander Farah is an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened globally at Berlinale, Telluride, and Clermont-Ferrand. His music video “Meet You At The Light” won both the Jury and Audience Choice Awards at SXSW in 2022. His recent short film “One Day This Kid” world premiered at TIFF in 2024 and won the Jury prize at SXSW in 2025.

  • Year 2024
  • Runtime 18 minutes
  • Country Canada
  • Language Dari/Farsi, English
  • Director Alexander Farah
  • Producer Joaquin Cardoner
  • Executive Producer Caterina Colombo, Martin Glegg, Mojean Aria, Sara Seyed, Sepanta Mohseni, Shelby Manton
  • Cast Elyas Rahimi, Mahan Mohammadinasab, Massey Ahmar
  • Cinematographer Farhad Ghaderi
  • Editor Alexander Farah
  • Production Design Adriana Marchand, Carolina Martinez
  • Composer Cyrus Reynolds
  • Sound Design Mark Dolmont
  • Music Cyrus Reynolds
  • Premiere Philadelphia

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