Subtraction

Mani Haghighi / Iran

Screening

Cinemes Girona

31-10-2023 / 20:00 h.

Film Information

Year: 2022

Duration: 107'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

Farzaneh is a young driving instructor who lives with her husband Jalal. One day she spots her husband walking into an unknown woman’s house. When she confronts Jalal, he claims he wasn’t in town on that time. Later Jalal decides to check out the house for himself. When Jalal arrives there, he meets a woman named Bita who is the spitting image of Farzaneh. Stunned, the two compare their partners’ photos, and Bita’s husband, Mohsen, also looks identical to Jalal. After this confusing interaction in downtown Teheran, the married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers. 

Director

Mani Haghighi (1969, Teheran) studied philosophy in the McGill University, Montreal, before going back to Iran. His first full-length film, Abadan (2003), was debuted in the Tribeca Film Festival. His script for Fireworks Wednesday by Asghar Farhadi (2006, co-written with the director) won the Special Jury Award at the Festival des 3 Continents of Nantes. His second full-length film, Men at Work (Berlinale, Forum 2006) won the Best Script Award at the Asian Film Awards 2007 (Hong Kong) and the Best Script Award in the international section of the Fajr Film Festival (Teheran). Canaan (2008), based on an Alice Munro’s story, was followed by two documentaries about the work of the acclaimed Irani director Dariush Mehrjui Hamoon’s Fans (2007). His fourth full-length movie, Modest Reception (Berlinale, Forum 2012), received the NETPAC Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the Free Spirit Award at the Varsovia Film Festival and the Best Actor and Actress Awards at the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in New Delhi.