Ãsheghetam
A Short film of
Production year2026
Runtime21 min
Synopsis
In modern-day Tehran, a young protagonist is consumed by the city’s oppressive sorrow, while their partner desperately tries to anchor them to a worldview filled with joy, pleasure, and love. To escape their reality, the couple heads to an underground rave to drown their sorrows. Their night of freedom is violently shattered twice: first by a raid from the morality police, and then by the sudden, terrifying onset of a US and Israeli war on the city.
Told through an out-of-body experience during this single apocalyptic night, Āsheghetam ("I love you") is a live-action, 3D-animated, and found-footage queer-fantasy-slasher-epic. It captures the extreme duality of contemporary Iranian youth, illustrating how a protagonist, pushed to the brink of despair, consciously chooses to live in a beautiful, surreal illusion with their lover in order to survive a harsh and unforgiving world.
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Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
- Co-production : Pan Cinéma
- Foreign production company : L'Abri
Full credits (6)
- Screenwriter : Filmsaaz
- Directors of Photography : Alice Brunnquell, Arnaud Alberola
- Co-producers : Thomas Jacquey, Saleh Kashefi
- Production Manager : Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
- Sound Editor : Ryo Baldet
- Animation : Armin Rangani
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction, Animated film
- Sub-genre : Romance, Thriller
- Themes : Politics, War, LGBTQIA+
- Production language : Persian
- Coproducer countries : France (70.0%), Switzerland (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland)
- Production year : 2026
- Runtime : 21 min
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby Digital
- Rating restrictions : None
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