From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Caveh Zahedi (born on April 29, 1960) is an American film director and actor of Iranian descent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Caveh Zahedi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.
Release Date2017-10-14
Charactersd Randy
Vote Count862
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member of The Yes Men Jaques Servin give classes in bringing about political change and make a web show of this. A hilarious and painfully honest report on this process, in which students and teachers slowly but surely get to know – and appreciate – one another.
Release Date2020-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Caveh Zahedi
A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Release Date2024-11-08
Charactersd Burl
Vote Count23
Sophia's friends decide to leave so she can get stoned with Caveh and talk about interpersonal relationships, future plans, and a forwarded email.
Release Date2013-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
Release Date2017-03-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count2
Caveh gets stoned and Rick Alverson doesn't.
Release Date2015-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Jo-Jo is a young woman who hears voices.
Release Date1992-01-20
Charactersd Obscene Phone Caller
Vote Count3
Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.
Release Date2013-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
A battle of wits between NYC cinephiles.
Release Date2019-01-01
Charactersd Caveh
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
Release Date1996-11-21
Charactersd Peter
Vote Count141
The epic conclusion to Caveh Zahedi's THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW
Release Date2025-07-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
A Little Stiff is a 1991 minimalist comedy directed by Caveh Zahedi and Greg Watkins based on true events and re-enacted by the actual participants. Caveh Zahedi plays himself as a neurotic film student who develops a crush on art student Erin McKim after a brief encounter in an elevator.
Release Date1991-03-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count3
Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.
Release Date2001-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.
Charactersd Himself (Archival)
Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards
Release Date2015-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
A semi-fictionalized day in the life of independent filmmaker Caveh (Caveh Zahedi) and his girlfriend Laura (Laura Macias) as they struggle with a series of challenges and accidents (including eviction from their apartment, possible pregnancy, and a car crash) while desperately seeking a sign from God about the future of their troubled relationship.
Release Date2000-10-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Caveh
Caveh gets stoned but Alex Ross Perry doesn't.
Release Date2019-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
A real-life comedy about a filmmaker who takes a road trip to Las Vegas -- with his real-life father and 16-year-old half-brother, plus a crew of three -- in the hopes of proving the existence of God.
Release Date1994-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count2
Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.
Release Date2016-01-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count2
The Ion Pack, New York City’s once-anonymous Instagram trolls of the downtown film world, talk with filmmakers as they contemplate life, love and longing in the city of 8 million stories.
Release Date2024-10-06
Charactersd Caveh Zahedi (voice)
Another film that Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers would rather you didn't see.
Release Date2012-11-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.
Release Date2025-10-01
Charactersd Henri
Vote Count1
Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends.
Release Date2005-10-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Charactersd Caveh
Vote Count48
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
Release Date2015-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Episode Count24
Vote Count3
Video diary shot during the making of Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth
Release Date1995-09-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count1
Caveh Zahedi and Amanda Field go to couples therapy
Release Date2013-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
After Richard finds out that his best and only friend, a dwarf hamster named Etienne, has terminal cancer, he decides to take his pocket pet on a bicycle road trip to show him the world before he has to put him to sleep.
Release Date2009-06-12
Charactersd Man in Coat
Vote Count1
A mockumentary examination of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy using "breaking news" style interviews and commentary.
Release Date2010-08-14
Charactersd Player King
On Valentine's Day, 1993, Caveh Zahedi decided to ingest 5 grams (a very large dose) of hallucinogenic mushrooms. For the first time in his mushroom-taking history, he had an experience of "divine possession," in which he felt that a divine being took possession of his body and spoke through him, in a voice that was not his, and with knowledge that he himself did not possess. He later tried several times to repeat the experience. I WAS POSSESSED BY GOD is the documentary record of one such attempt.
Release Date2000-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count1
This film has nothing to do with Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, but rather a naval base of the same name located in San Francisco Bay. Set amid WWII, TREASURE ISLAND follows two American code specialists that are hard at work trying to decipher Japanese messages and sending confusing messages back to deceive the enemy. The film explores sexual themes that were prevalent during the period, but not shown in the movies of that era. Frank, a bigamist, is married to two women and is pursuing a third wife. Samuel and his wife Penny are in a ménage à trois, which he participates in to cover up his homosexuality. As the pressures of the men’s lives begin to eat away at them, the dead body starts to torment Frank and Samuel's subconscious, interacting with the private stories of their lives.
Release Date1999-01-24
Charactersd Harold
Vote Count8
A married Seattle couple struggle in their relationship as they approach the millennium, each looking for new directions in their life. He dreams of shedding all material worth and going on a spiritual awakening. She wants a new relationship with an old lover who wrote her a love note years ago. When a male friend commits suicide, he leaves all of his belongings to his friends. The two choose a piano from his possessions, which comes to represent the couple's relationship as he pushes the piano 50 blocks across the city to their home.
Release Date1999-10-01
Charactersd Steve
Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.
Release Date2014-07-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Charactersd Himself
Caveh Zahedi pitching movie ideas
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Caveh gets stoned with indie filmmaker Bob Byington whose film, Registered Sex Offender, he once acted in.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
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 to shed light on the mental process by which racism becomes internalized.
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Charactersd Narrator
Vote Count2
Caveh gets stoned with Kevin Corrigan.
Release Date2023-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd himself
Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi gets too stoned with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.
Release Date2023-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Caveh gets stoned. Jon Jost doesn't.
Release Date2023-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd himself
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
Release Date2001-10-19
Charactersd Self
Vote Count918
"During Covid, I was contacted online by a woman who lived in Berlin - a French-Caribbean singer and performance artist. She said she was a fan of my work and we started corresponding. These text messages turned into nightly Zoom calls which turned into a desire to meet in person. But travel restrictions in Germany and the US limited our choice to a handful of countries, one of which was England. She had a friend in London with an apartment that was going to be empty at the same time that my ex-wife was taking our kids to Maine for two weeks. So we decided to meet there. She wanted us to make a film together so I suggested we make a film about our relationship." - Caveh Zahedi
Release Date2025-05-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
With longtime collaborators Greg Watkins (A Little Stiff) and Thomas Logoreci, the charismatic, experimental filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches legendary songwriter Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) in an unconventional interview. Caveh offers up a serving of psychedelic mushrooms and a view on the relationship between the musician and his fan.
Release Date2004-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count4
The continuing saga of Caveh Zahedi's collaboration with students at The New School.
Release Date2024-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Part 1 of The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi's project made with his students at The New School.
Release Date2024-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
The conclusion of Caveh Zahedi's group project with his students at The New School.
Release Date2024-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.
Release Date2000-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
20 years after Tripping with Caveh, Will Oldham and Caveh Zahedi get stoned together.
Release Date2025-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Release Date2008-01-22
Charactersd Self
Vote Count19
On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.
Release Date2001-04-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.
Release Date2012-12-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Self
Vote Count7
After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely uncivilized. At the top of his list is finding a job — and getting his vindictive girlfriend to put out again.
Release Date2008-03-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count11
An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.
Release Date2009-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Self
The Sundance Channel gives Zahedi a still camera to chronicle his Sundance experience.
Release Date2000-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Self
A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.
Release Date2002-03-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other's sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal manifestation of jealous rivalry.
Release Date2015-02-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count11
Experimental short film by Caveh Zahedi featuring the music of Satie.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Found footage film based on a real phone conversation.
Release Date2014-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.
Release Date2005-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Unfinished video diary
Release Date2013-03-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 based on a series of personal prompts.
Release Date2020-07-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
From 2002 to 2005, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Bill Brown.
Release Date2005-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A meditation on loss
Release Date1997-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Caveh Zahedi films the making of A SIGN FROM GOD (a film in which he starred).
Release Date1999-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A mother and daughter disagree about whether to put their dying dog to sleep.
Release Date1988-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A guy wakes up one morning to find a stranger in his bathroom who claims to be his son.
Release Date1987-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Caveh Zahedi takes DMT.
Release Date2006-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
From 2001 to 2005, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Matthew Weiss.
Release Date2005-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident fifty years ago.
Release Date2021-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count24
From 1996 to 1999, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Jay Rosenblatt.
Release Date1999-03-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This film is a birthday gift to Caveh Zahedi's girlfriend Amada (Mandy) Field. Mr. Zahedi arranged for one of his friends to film her all day on her birthday as his special birthday gift to her.
Release Date1999-12-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This is the commissioned (and ultimately banned) film which Zahedi made for a biennial celebration. His The Sheik and I documentary is about his experiences making, and then dealing with the fallout stemming from having made, this film.
Release Date2015-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 puppies, and the loss of each puppy to their new owners. Often funny and ultimately sad, the piece explores our love and attachments to dogs and our projections onto animals.
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
A look into the far-too-brief life of D. Montgomery, the sound recordist for Caveh Zahedi's I DON'T HATE LAS VEGAS ANYMORE.
Release Date1997-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Another meditation on loss.
Release Date1997-07-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Focus Features commissions Zahedi to make a one-minute film about his one-year old to promote the film Babies.
Release Date2010-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
A found footage video utilizing Buster Keaton's "One Week" with a song by Don Lennon.
Release Date2014-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
From 1987 to 1990, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Gary Green.
Release Date1990-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 that a boy he'd never seen before ran up to him and said that it was raining worms. Our lad of five is on the cusp between believing anything he hears and entering the age of reason. He asks for proof. He holds out his hand.
Release Date2001-03-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films, the filmmaker depicts his childhood fear of Jesus Christ. These childhood recollections are a point of departure for larger issues such as the roots of Christian anti-Semitism.
Release Date2000-03-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Fragments from a would-be abecedarium: E IS FOR ELEVATOR, J IS FOR JUMP, K IS FOR KISSING, M IS FOR MAGGOT and S IS FOR STRANGER.
Release Date1989-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Caveh Zahedi connects with a vivacious French performance artist residing in Berlin, sparking an online romance. Fueled by their chemistry, they decide to meet face-to-face. Things…do not go as planned.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
How to live a long life filled with regret.
Release Date2018-04-18
Vote Count2
A compilation of footage from The Threee Geniuses. “The most intentionally psychedelic television show on cable TV.”
Release Date2009-11-15
