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I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies

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I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies

Mara Ashaegh Chenan Bayad Ke Har Bari ke Barkhizad Ghiamat-haaye por Atash Ze Har Su-i Barangizad

direction Mani Haghighi

Iran 2026 Documentary Cor 76 min.

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Set between Tabriz and Tehran in the weeks between the Twelve-Day War and the subsequent conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this film follows two Iranian artists whose lives have become inseparable from a vast private archive assembled over decades: photographs, documents, discarded objects, and traces of anonymous lives. Working somewhere between collecting, hoarding, preservation, and obsession, they have created an improvised museum of neglected lives, one in which sex workers, young soldiers, child labourers, gay lovers, and ordinary families emerge through abandoned albums, damaged belongings, and fragments of memory left behind by history.

iran documentary memory art & culture contemporary crises social issues politics history international film festivals

technical sheet

direction

Mani Haghighi

screenplay

Mani Haghighi

cinematography

Ali Ghazi

editing

Mostafa Kherghehpoosh

sound design

Amir Hossein Ghasemi

music

Ramin Kousha

art direction

Amir Hossein Ghodsi

cast

Nasser Bakhshi, Roghayeh Najdi

production

Mani Haghighi

produced by

Dark Precursor

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Films Boutique

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I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies