It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto has been substituted for the Big Apple. Matthew Rankin, though, has gone ...

Canadian director Matthew Rankin’s Persian and French-language drama Universal Language has won the inaugural Audience Award of Directors’ Fortnight. This is the first official prize launched by ...

One of the most idiosyncratic and hypnotic entries in this year’s Best International Feature Film race is “Universal Language,” Matthew Rankin’s vision of a frozen world that feels like a strange ...

On the heels of its world premiere at Cannes, Matthew Rankin‘s comedy Universal Language has been named as Canada’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The ...

Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” is likely the first story to take place in its setting: an alternate Winnipeg, Canada, where the Persian language is dominant, wild turkeys freely roam the ...

Chinese director Hu Guan’s “Black Dog” has been named the best film in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, a jury headed by director Xavier Dolan announced at an awards ...

“Universal Language” takes place in an imaginary, barely conceivable Canada that has taken in so many Iranian immigrants that road signs and graffiti are in Farsi, even in remote Winnipeg. At Tim ...