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.

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

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

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

Exclusive: Director Gints Zilbalodis shared, "It’s an absolute dream come true to see 'Flow' featured in the Criterion Collection alongside the legendary filmmakers I grew up admiring." ...

Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...

Credit director Matthew Rankin, who shot the film in Winnipeg in March of 2023 and screened it at festivals at Cannes and Toronto before finally bringing it home to the city of his birth.

Guy Gaudreau, the father of the late Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, was on the ice for Team USA's practice ahead of this week's ...

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 ...

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 ...