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 ...

Matthew Rankin’s whimsical, cerebral comedy takes place in a version of the northern nation that is full of Iranian ...

This time of year, we find ourselves in a lame-duck period on the movie calendar, with much of Hollywood’s energy directed toward Academy Award–nominated titles in the run-up to the March 2 ceremony.

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

Oscilloscope Laboratorie s has acquired North American rights to “ Obex ” following its debut at this year’s Sundance Film ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

The morning of Feb. 23, 2024, then-sheriff's deputy Joshua Rankin, 26, saw Matthew Browning, who is autistic and non-verbal, banging his head on Rankin's service vehicle parked at the Brittany Place ...