Cohen Media Group

Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman has been acquired by Amazon Studios who will partner with Cohen Media Group for domestic distribution. The film joins a streak of indie film pick ups for the studio at Cannes.

Forushande (The Salesman) is the story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

Real life mother and daughter, Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson, have signed on for Julien Landais’ adaptation of Henry James’ Aspern Papers.

Set in Venice in 1885, an ambiguous young writer fascinated by iconic romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, strives to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful mistress.

during the 48 hours leading up to the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, the film focuses on the relationship between WWII leader Winston Churchill and his wife Clemmie.

Logline: The true tale of two WW II intelligence officers who outfitted a corpse with false papers in hopes to falsely indicate an Allied invasion on southern Europe through Greece, rather than Sicily. However, when the Germans took the bait, selling the lie took a little more initiative then the two had planned.

Logline: Follows a member of a noble family, well-educated but ruled by his emotions in a period when all traditional values were under attack, as he falls in love with a young widow.

Logline: The daughter of a martyr for Burmese independence, Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma from England in 1988 to see her ailing mother but ended up serving as General Secretary of the newly formed National League for Democracy. Although the NLD won in the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi was held under house arrest for the following fifteen years by a military junta.