Mani Haghighi
Acting · Directing · Production · Writing
Народився 16 липня 1969, Tehran, Iran
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 Cinefan Festival in New Delhi as well as a few other international prizes. Haghighi has also acted in several films, including Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly (Berlinale, competition 2009) and Nima Javidi’s Melbourne (2014), as well as his own film, Modest Reception.
Фільмографія
- 2026I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies — Director, Writer, Producer
- 2024Meet the Witch
- 2022A Conversation on The Report — Director
- 2022Subtraction — Director, Writer
- 2022Won't You Cry? — Amir Hossein
- 2020Amphibious
- 2020The Slaughterhouse — Mr. Motevalli
- 2019Cheshm O Goosh Baste — Boss
- 2019The Warden — Colonel Modabber
- 2019We Are All Together
- 2018Pig — Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2018Sly
- 2017Negar — Behtash
- 201650 Kilos of Sour Cherry — Writer, Director
- 2016A Dragon Arrives! — Himself, Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2016Me
- 2016Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report — Producer, Director, Editor, Cinematography
- 2014Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz va digaran
- 2014Melbourne — Mr. Mosayebi
- 2013Modest Reception — Kaveh, Director, Screenplay
- 2011Beloved Sky
- 2011No Men Allowed — Faramarz Shapoori
- 2009About Elly — Amir
- 2008Canaan — Director, Screenplay
- 2006Fireworks Wednesday — Writer
- 2006Men at Work — Director, Screenplay
- 2004Abadan — Director, Screenplay
- 2001To stay — Director, Producer
- 1974The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries — Ali
- Hamoon Bazha — Director