Midnight Longing
TITLE
Midnight Longing
DIRECTOR
Mehrnaz Iranmanesh, Evita Amini
COUNTRY
Iran
YEAR
2025
DURATION
17′
GENRE
Fiction
Overview

Midnight Longing
Farid, whose partner recently left Iran, wants to play in a theatre production in which he plays a character who wants to fly."

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Mehrnaz Iranmanesh, Evita Amini
Mehrnaz Iranmanesh (born October 22, 1998) is an Iranian screenwriter, director, and assistant director. She began her artistic career in the field of music, and after studying Classical Music Performance at the University of Tehran, spent several years teaching and performing. In recent years, she has entered the field of cinema, working in various roles including writer and director, assistant director, production scheduler, and script consultant. Avita Amini (born on March 21, 2005, in Isfahan, Iran) has a background in graphic design from high school. She also works in amera department. Midnight Longing is Avita’s first professional short film.
Credits
- Director Mehrnaz Iranmanesh, Evita Amini
- Screenplay Mehrnaz Iranmanesh, Evita Amini
- CinematographyAli Hosseinzadeh
- CastKasra Faryadi, Sadaf Asgari, Mohammad Soori, Faeze Rad, Alireza Abbasi, Mohammad Bagheri
- Editing Ehsan Vaseghi
- Producer/s Ali Asgari, Samira Roshani
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleMidnight Longing
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originIran
- Country of filmingIran
- Language
- First-time Filmmaker Yes
- Student ProjectNo

Mehrnaz Iranmanesh, Evita Amini
Mehrnaz Iranmanesh (born October 22, 1998) is an Iranian screenwriter, director, and assistant director. She began her artistic career in the field of music, and after studying Classical Music Performance at the University of Tehran, spent several years teaching and performing. In recent years, she has entered the field of cinema, working in various roles including writer and director, assistant director, production scheduler, and script consultant. Avita Amini (born on March 21, 2005, in Isfahan, Iran) has a background in graphic design from high school. She also works in amera department. Midnight Longing is Avita’s first professional short film.