Caveh Zahedi Movies

Focus Features commissions Zahedi to make a one-minute film about his one-year old to promote the film Babies.

Caveh gets stoned and Rick Alverson doesn't.

Experimental short film which uses execution footage and animation set to Kath Bloom's song 'Fall Again'

This is the commissioned (and ultimately banned) film which Zahedi made for a biennial celebration. His The Sheik and I documentary is about his...

A collection of films produced at the New School between February and May of 2020. Caveh Zahedi's students were asked to make personal documentaries...

The story of how and why an American programmer tried to censor an Iranian-American filmmaker for making a film about censorship in the Middle East.

A battle of wits between NYC cinephiles.

Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards

The epic conclusion to Caveh Zahedi's THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW

King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and...

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member of The Yes Men Jacques Servin give classes in bringing about political change and make a web show of this. A...

The Ion Pack, New York City’s once-anonymous Instagram trolls of the downtown film world, talk with filmmakers as they contemplate...

Prelude to I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore, shot two years prior.

Caveh Zahedi looks for the grave of Joyce Hunter, a figure of infatuation for the artist Joseph Cornell.

This tersely lyrical meditation on sex and gender roles from Joanna Arnow features two fed-up mermaids lounging on a beach, drinks in hand, as they...

Caveh Zahedi films the making of A SIGN FROM GOD (a film in which he starred).

Experimental short film by Caveh Zahedi featuring the music of Satie.

An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us...

Video diary shot during the making of Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth

A mockumentary examination of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy using "breaking news" style interviews and commentary.