- A Modest Reception
- Paziraei Sadeh (DVD) – A brave film written and directed by Mani Haghighi
- پذیرایی ساده
- An award winner film from Iran with English subtitles.
Mani Haghighi stars and directs a cinematic tale about a strange duo make their way through Iran distributing bags of cash to needy people.
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.
- If the answer to the question, “Who wants to be a millionaire?” seems obvious, it’s anything but that in the tongue-in-cheek Paziraie Sadeh (Modest Reception), testing how far the impoverished inhabitants of a mountainous Iranian border area are willing to sell out for a fat bag of money offered by two rich loonies from the city. Director-actor Mani Haghighi and Taraneh Alidoosti, among the stars in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, pull out the stops in an absurd but engrossing piece of cinematic theater that has high points and hard points, but is difficult to walk out on.
