Caveh Zahedi Movies

How to live a long life filled with regret.

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...

A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.

Caveh gets stoned with indie filmmaker Bob Byington whose film, Registered Sex Offender, he once acted in.

An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.

Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.

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...

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.

After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely...

Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts...

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...

Saint Abdullah commission Caveh Zahedi to make a music video for their song "Wiretap for Oral".

Experimental short edit of a sped up version of T. Rex's "Cosmic Dancer" set to looping footage from Charlie Chaplin's One A.M. (1916).

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

The prelude to The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi’s project made with his students at the European Graduate School in Malta.

A Fandor commissioned documentary of Caveh's awkward encounters with celebrities at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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

A guy wakes up one morning to find a stranger in his bathroom who claims to be his son.

A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her...