Director Matthew Rankin talks to IndieWire about the fine art of faking snow, even in Winnipeg. In “Universal Language,” two girls look for the means to liberate a huge bill frozen in ice; an intrepid ...

Tehran comes to Winnipeg in Matthew Rankin's singular gem about cross-cultural exchange. Despite being set in a parallel-universe Winnipeg where the people talk in Farsi and the world around them ...

The quickest way I can sum up the slow-moving, weirdly touching cinematic oddity that is “Universal Language” is to ask you to imagine what it would look like if Iran were in Canada. This is not as ...

The second feature by Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin ('The Twentieth Century') won the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight audience award in Cannes. By Jordan Mintzer Newsflash: Iran has invaded the ...

This review was originally published on May 23, 2024 out of the Cannes Film Festival. We are recirculating it now that Universal Language is in theaters. On the surface, Rankin’s film seems like ...

There’s a notion in the film industry that comedies don’t travel. Jokes have a regional audience, and humor gets lost in translation, the thinking goes. But director Matthew Rankin thinks more of ...