Mani Haghighi

January 9, 2024
Film Director

Quick Facts

Mani Haghighi
Full Name Mani Haghighi
Occupation Film Director
Date Of Birth May 4, 1969(1969-05-04)
Age 55
Birthplace Tehran
Country Iran
Birth City Tehran
Horoscope Taurus

Mani Haghighi Biography

Name Mani Haghighi
Birthday May 4
Birth Year 1969
Place Of Birth Tehran
Home Town Tehran
Birth Country Iran
Birth Sign Taurus
Parents Lili Golestan, Nemat Haghighi
Siblings Sanam Haghighi, Mahmoud Haghighi

Mani Haghighi is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on May 4, 1969 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Haghighi moved back to Iran in 2001 and worked for several years in advertising, shooting television commercials, educational films and documentaries. His first feature film, Abadan (2002), was shot on a Sony PD-150 camera with no official shooting permit. It was the first Iranian independent feature film to be shot with a digital camera. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002.

In 2006, Haghighi and Asghar Farhadi wrote Fireworks Wednesday, a domestic social-realist drama that dealt with issues of class and alienation in contemporary Tehran. The film, directed by Farhadi, premiered at the competition section of the Locarno film festival and was awarded the best screenplay prize at the Three Continents Film Festival in Nantes. It won the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival.

Mani Haghighi Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Film Director
House Living in own house.

Mani Haghighi is one of the richest Film Director from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mani Haghighi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mani Haghighi (Persian مانی حقیقی) born 4 May, 1969, is an Iranian film director, writer, film producer and actor.

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In September 2016, the fundamentalist weekly journal Yalasarat al-Hussein published an article claiming to have uncovered a love triangle involving Haghighi, the actress Taraneh Alidoosti and the director Asghar Farhadi. The article, which referred to the protagonists with thinly veiled pseudonyms, prompted instant outrage. Director Ebrahim Hatamikia and the executive committee of the film-makers trade union demanded legal action against the journal. In the end, Farhadi and Alidoosti decided against taking legal action, but Haghighi filed a formal complaint and, in March 2019 the publication’s editor, Abdolhamid Mohtasham, was found guilty of defamation and sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence and a five-year revocation of the publication’s licence.

Facts & Trivia

Jonathan Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Mani Haghighi celebrates birthday on May 4 of every year.

A Dragon Arrives! was shot on location in the Valley of Stars on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf. The film screened in the competition section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2016. Scott Foundas called the film “the revelation of the Berlinale – a fever dream Iranian horror-western; Kiarostami meets Jodorowsky.”

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