I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies – NYFF64

A world premiere documentary by unorthodox Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi profiling Nasser Bakhshi, an Iranian painter, conceptual artist, collector, and curator whose monumental archive of found objects creates a record of collective memory. Situated in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the film captures Bakhshi's work alongside his partner Roghayeh Najdi whose surrealist paintings address the place of women in Iranian society. Preceded by Kleber Mendonça Filho's short "South of Tehran."