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SUBTRACTION
TAFRIGH

• Director: Mani Haghighi
• IRAN, FRANCE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 107’ / Farsi; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Amir Reza Koohestani, Mani Haghighi
• Director of Photography: Morteza Najafi
• Editing: Meysam Molaei
• Music: Ramin Kousha
• Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Soheila Razavi, Saeed Changizian
• Producer: Majid Motalebi
• Production Co.: Majid Film Production, Films Boutique
• World Sales: Films Boutique

In downtown Tehran, Farzaneh spots her husband, Jalal, walking into a woman’s apartment. Convinced he is having an affair, she confronts him, but Jalal claims he was actually out of town for work. He decides to check out the building for himself. There, he meets a woman, who is the spitting image of Farzaneh, married to a man identical to himself. ‘I wanted to make a film about the atmosphere of Tehran: not the explicitly political film that tackles issues head-on, but a film about the mood of this city, how it feels for us to live here, all of us, together with our doubles,’ says director Haghighi for his latest film, Subtraction which premiered at Toronto Film Festival. The film stars Taraneh Alidoosti with Navid Mohammedzadeh, both of whom were in Leila’s Brothers which screened at Filmekimi.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.