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Universal Language

OT: Universal Language

Matthew Rankin | Canada, 2024
Fiction Feature | FF2024
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English or French? No, Farsi! A wonderfully absurd, intelligent comedy about the language conflict in Canada and a declaration of love for Iranian culture and the films of Kiarostami and Panahi. The introvert Matthew leaves Montreal and returns to his home city of Winnipeg to visit his sick mother. But somehow time and space seem to have been turned on their heads: bizarrely, everyone in this remote Canadian city seems to speak Farsi. And like in a film by Kiarostami, two children find a 500 Rial note frozen in ice and start searching – and Matthew gets caught up in the search.

Director

Among other awards, MATTHEW RANKIN (*1980 in Canada) was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize for his debut feature The Twentieth Century (2019). For Universal Language he won the Audience Prize in the Quinzaine des cinéastes section at Cannes.

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Universal Language

Fiction Feature

Farsi, French

Kaleidoscope | FF2024


Canada

2024

89 min

OV with German subtitles

Matthew Rankin

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