Mani Haghighi

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Mani Haghighi

Born July 16, 1969 · Tehran, Iran (age 57)

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 (Berlin…

Known For

About EllyAbout Elly · 2009
About Elly
★ 7.52009
MovieDrama
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
SubtractionSubtraction · 2022
Subtraction
★ 6.62022
MovieDramaThriller
After a confusing interaction in downtown Tehran, a married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers.
PigPig · 2018
Pig
★ 5.72018
MovieDramaComedy
A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?
Fireworks WednesdayFireworks Wednesday · 2006
Fireworks Wednesday
★ 7.42006
MovieDrama
Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future.
Modest ReceptionModest Reception · 2013
Modest Reception
★ 6.52013
MovieDramaComedy
An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.
CanaanCanaan · 2008
Canaan
★ 5.92008
MovieDrama
Mina has decided to leave her older husband Morteza after ten years of marriage. Next Monday will be her divorce date, which means her first step towards her goal; immigration. However, the arrival of her older sister, Azar, together with the illness of her mother in law is causing her trouble. To her surprise, meanwhile, she finds out she is pregnant.
Cheshm O Goosh BasteCheshm O Goosh Baste · 2019
Cheshm O Goosh Baste
★ 5.42019
MovieComedyCrime
Two people find themselves in the middle of a murder plot. One can't hear and the other one can't see.
Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz va digaranAzar, Shahdokht, Parviz va digaran · 2014
Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz va digaran
★ 4.02014
MovieComedyDrama
Shahdokht who is the wife of the famous actor Parviz, accidentally enters the world of cinema by being cast as an actress in Parviz's last film and becomes a serious rival for him. He becomes jealous of her and their relationship becomes sour. Until their daughter who lives in Europe is suddenly return home without a notice.

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I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies · 2026
I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies
2026
MovieDocumentary
Set between Tabriz and Tehran in the weeks between the Twelve-Day War and the subsequent conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this film follows two Iranian artists whose lives have become inseparable from a vast private archive assembled over decades: photographs, documents, discarded objects, and traces of anonymous lives. Working somewhere between collecting, hoarding, preservation, and obsession, they have created an improvised museum of neglected lives, one in which sex workers, young soldiers, child labourers, gay lovers, and ordinary families emerge through abandoned albums, damaged belongings, and fragments of memory left behind by history.

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