Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...

Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

Tehran comes to Winnipeg in 'Universal Language,' Matthew Rankin's singular gem about cross-cultural exchange.

With deep influences from the French and Iranian New Waves, Universal Language is equal parts a moving experience and a ...

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

Director Matthew Rankin's dry, eccentric charmer features a man who sings to his turkey and something called the Winnepeg ...

By Neydja Petithomme Click here for updates on this story HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Family members of a man ...

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Learning Farsi in advance to accommodate his singular vision of a film set in “a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg,” Matthew Rankin did such an alluring job on ...

Former Henderson County Sheriff's deputy Joshua Rankin pled guilty to felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious ...

In the cockeyed Canada of Matthew Rankin’s nutty comedy “Universal Language,” Winnipeg is colourful and bustling while Montreal is dreary and almost comatose. Peter Howell is a Toronto-based ...