UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
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With Baharan BaniAhmadi, Rojina Esmaeili
Winner of the first-ever Directors Fortnight Audience Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and Canada’s official submission for the upcoming Oscar competition, UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE casts a strange comic spell in a lovingly bizarre tribute to Iranian cinema. In the surreal alternative universe of director Rankin, set in a time warp that weirdly resembles 1980s Canada, Persian is now the national language. A dweeby bureaucrat quits his government job and heads home to Winnipeg, bastion of prize-winning turkeys, abandoned monuments and Tim Horton’s shops serving tea from samovars. Asides, subplots and scores of delightful sight gags make this one of the most original and unforgettable films of the year. In Persian and French with English subtitles.
“A magnificent film, one that feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.”–Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
“Wholly original and brought to life with an overwhelming sense of charm and sincerity, UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE is a film like no other.–Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Alliance of Women Journalists
Year: 2024
Runtime: 89 minutes
Language: Persian and French with English subtitles
Country: Canada
Genre: Comedy
Director: Matthew Rankin
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