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Mani Haghighi

Mani Haghighi

Director · Born 1969-07-16 · Tehran, Iran

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Biography

Mani Haghighi (b.1969, Tehran) studied philosophy at McGill University, Montreal before returning to Iran to make films. His first feature, Abadan (2003) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. His screenplay for Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday (2006, co-written with the director) won the Special Jury Prize at the Three Continents Festival, Nantes. His second feature film, Men at Work (Berlinale, Forum 2006) won the Best Screenplay Prize at the 2007 Asian Film Awards (Hong Kong) and the Best Screenplay Prize in the international section of the Fajr Film Festival (Tehran). Canaan (2008), based on a short story by Alice Munro, was followed by two documentary films on the works of the acclaimed Iranian director, Dariush Mehrjui: Hamoon’s Fans (2007), about the curious lives of six Iranians who are devoted fans of Mehrjui’s 1989 film, “Hamoon”, and Dariush Mehrjui: The Forty Year Report (2012), a feature length documentary about Mehrjui’s life and works. His fourth feature film, Modest Reception (Berlinale, Forum 2012), received the NETPAC Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the Free Spirit Award at the Warsaw Film Festival, the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes at the OSIAN’s Cin…

Directed

  1. Subtraction (2022) — Director
  2. A Dragon Arrives! (2016) — Director
  3. Pig (2018) — Director
  4. 50 Kilos of Sour Cherry (2016) — Director
  5. Modest Reception (2013) — Director
  6. Canaan (2008) — Director
  7. Men at Work (2006) — Director
  8. A Conversation on The Report (2022) — Director
  9. Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report (2016) — Director
  10. Abadan (2004) — Director
  11. Hamoon Bazha — Director
  12. To stay (2001) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. About Elly (2009) — Amir
  2. No Men Allowed (2011) — Faramarz Shapoori
  3. The Warden (2019) — Colonel Modabber
  4. A Dragon Arrives! (2016) — Himself
  5. Melbourne (2014) — Mr. Mosayebi
  6. 50 Kilos of Sour Cherry (2016)
  7. Modest Reception (2013) — Kaveh
  8. Negar (2017) — Behtash
  9. The Slaughterhouse (2020) — Mr. Motevalli
  10. Sly (2018)
  11. We Are All Together (2019)
  12. Me (2016)
  13. Cheshm O Goosh Baste (2019) — Boss
  14. The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries (1974) — Ali
  15. Amphibious (2020)
  16. Beloved Sky (2011)
  17. Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz va digaran (2014)
  18. Won't You Cry? (2022) — Amir Hossein
  19. Meet the Witch (2024)