Films Boutique Nabs Mani Haghighi’s ‘I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies’ Ahead of New York Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Aug 11, 2026 4:25am PT Films Boutique Nabs Mani Haghighi’s ‘I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies’ Ahead of New York Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Haghighi’s Iranian documentary, set between the 12-Day War and the subsequent U.S. and Israeli attacks, unspools in the New York Film Festival’s Main Slate

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Nasser Bakhshi and Roghayeh Najdi in ‘I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies’ Courtesy of Films Boutique

Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has acquired worldwide rights to Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi’s documentary “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies,” which is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival.

Set between Tabriz and Tehran in the weeks between the 12-Day War and the subsequent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, the documentary accompanies two artists whose lives have become inseparable from a vast private archive assembled over decades: photographs, documents, discarded objects, and traces of anonymous lives.

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