1. Mani Haghighi is an Iranian film director, writer, film producer, and actor.
12 Facts About Mani Haghighi
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Mani Haghighi was educated in Iran and, from the age of 15, Appleby College in Canada.
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Mani Haghighi took a BA in philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, where he studied under Charles Taylor and Brian Massumi, and directed plays including Pinter's Betrayal and Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Mani Haghighi then followed postgraduate studies at Guelph and Trent universities.
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Mani Haghighi contributed a chapter to A Shock to Thought: Expression after Deleuze and Guattari, edited by Brian Massumi, and translated Michel Foucault's This is Not a Pipe into Persian.
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Mani Haghighi moved back to Iran in 2001 and worked for several years in advertising, shooting television commercials, educational films and documentaries.
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Canaan, Mani Haghighi's second writing collaboration with Farhadi, was based on "Post and Beam", a short story by the Nobel prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro.
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In 2016, Mani Haghighi made 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries, a popular romantic comedy that became, in the year of its release, the third-highest grossing film in the history of Iranian cinema.
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In 2018, Mani Haghighi made Pig, a black comedy about the misadventures of a black-listed film director who is falsely accused of the serial murder of his colleagues.
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In October 2022, in a period of political upheaval in Iran, Mani Haghighi had his passport confiscated and was prevented from leaving the country as he was attempting to fly to the UK for a London Film Festival showing of his film Subtraction.
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Between 2007 and 2016 Mani Haghighi produced and directed two documentaries about the Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui.
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Mani Haghighi published an open call to everyone who considered themselves a fan of the film to write him a one-page explanation of their reasons for loving it.