Godfrey Cheshire Movies

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a...

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's...

The Salesman is Asghar Farhadi's seventh film that won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and the...

A look at the making of Dariush Mahrjui's 'The Cow' ('Gav'), considered by many to be the seminal film of the Iranian New Wave.

When New York film critic Godfrey Cheshire returns home to North Carolina in early 2004 and hears that his cousin Charlie Silver plans to uproot and...