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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 of immigration is central to his work and greatly influenced by the many times Babek has moved in his life, from France to Iran and from English Canada to Belarus, before settling down in Quebec. He has served on the board of Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM) to promote more inclusive representation on stage and screen. Babek is also a producer.

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About WatchMind AI — Smart What to Watch

Smart What to Watch (smartwhattowatch.com) is the home of WatchMind — the free AI movie and TV recommendation app also known as WatchMind AI.

WatchMind AI (WatchMind) recommends movies and TV using AI-assisted algorithms — taste profiles, semantic matching, and embedding similarity process your browsing, queue saves, ratings, and engagement into personalised picks: For You rails, daily suggestions, mood feeds, and match scores. Trailers, TMDb review excerpts, and licensed where-to-watch links support each pick. We do not host or stream full films or episodes.

Browse movies, TV series, and curated feeds such as Story Hunt. Title pages include synopses, cast, where-to-watch data from TMDb, and structured data for search engines. Personalised rails and your profile use optional Google sign-in (name, email, and account ID only to identify you — see the homepage section "What we collect and why"). The catalogue remains readable without an account.