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Kayvan Mashayekh's new film is his first -- and it took the Iranian-born lawyer from Houston five years to make. It's called The Keeper and it parallels his own life story with the tale of Persian poet Omar Kyayyam. Vanessa Redgrave appears in the epic, along with a cast of hundreds. Jacki Lyden talks with the filmmaker and with Mehdi Amin-Razavi, author of The Wine of Wisdom, a new biography of Kyayyam.

Wednesday night's showcases blends the sounds of Haiti, India, Italy and the Indigenous people of North America.

Our final night of globalFEST 2021 features salsa, First Nations music, Appalachian folk and a West African superstar.

Police shot and killed the 22-year-old Black man while executing a no-knock search warrant last week. Protesters called for the resignation of the chief and the officer they say shot Locke.

Ed Gordon talks to two filmmakers about their film, Favela Rising -- an unflinching look at the hard lives of those who live in one Brazilian ghetto.

Actor and director Albert Brooks trolls for laughs in Asia and the Middle East in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Playing a version of himself, Brooks is recruited by the U.S. government to help foster a deeper understanding of the region. A comedy tour ensues.

Comedian Albert Brooks plays himself in the film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, which he also wrote and directed. Brooks tells Steve Inskeep about his "government-sponsored" mission to find out what makes Muslims laugh.

A Good Woman is based on Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan. But unlike Wilde's play, which is based in Victorian England, the film is set in Italy decades later. Critic Kenneth Turan is worried the story can't survive such a drastic change of scene.

The chart-topping Washington, D.C., rapper brings his songs to life at the Tiny Desk with the help of a six-piece go-go band.

What a way to wrap up Tiny Desk Fest. Raphael Saadiq, one of the most respected voices in soul music, performs a live concert with rising R&B star Lucky Daye.