The 64th New York Film Festival runs through October 12 around Lincoln Center. Among the obvious premieres, a distinctive pick is Haghighi’s magnificently titled I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies: a 76-minute documentary about Nasser Bakhshi, a Tabriz painter, curator and compulsive keeper of found objects and unofficial historical documents. The archive becomes a counter-history, with Bakhshi’s partner Roghayeh Najdi’s surreal paintings widening the argument to women’s lives in Iran. Film at Lincoln Center lists September 30 at 6:15 p.m., October 1 at 9 p.m. and October 2 at 11:30 a.m.; the first two include Q&As, and the first pairs the film with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s eight-minute short South of Tehran.
At 6:12 a.m., the official page still listed all three showtimes but did not expose selectable inventory in its accessible view, so treat them as a programming lead rather than a ticket promise. The appeal is the form: a political film built from the texture of drawers, labels, recovered documents and a relationship, rather than a two-hour delivery system for positions everyone already holds.