UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE MATTHEW RANKIN

  • CANADA

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  • FARSI | FRENCH

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  • 2024

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  • 89 mins

In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.

ತೆಹರಾನ್‌ ಮತ್ತು ವಿನ್ನಿಪಿಗ್‌ನ ಎರಡು ಅಸಂಬದ್ಧ ವಲಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವ ಪಾತ್ರಗಳ ಜೀವನದ ಚಿತ್ರಣ. ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆ, ಕಾಲ ಹಾಗೂ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಮೂಲದ ಶೋಧನೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯ ಪಾತ್ರಗಳಾದರೂ ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಸಂಬಂಧವುಳ್ಳ ಮೂರು ಚಿತ್ರಗಳ ಕತೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Sylvain Corbeil

Screenplay :

Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Ila Firouzabadi

Director of Photography :

Isabelle Stachtchenko

Editor :

Xi Feng

Music :

Amir Amiri, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux

Sound :

Pablo Villegas, Armin Firouzabadi

Cast :

Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Sobhan Javadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou

Awards - Winner :

Cannes FF (Directors' Fortnight Audience Award), Toronto IFF (Best Canadian Discovery Award), Melbourne IFF (Bright Horizons Award), Hamburg FF (Arthouse Cinema Award)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Opening Film), Busan FF (World Cinema), Stockholm FF (Best Film), Bangkok World FF (Best Film)

MATTHEW RANKIN

Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied history at McGill and Univerité Laval. He is the director of some forty documentary, fiction and animation films which have been presented at Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, Annecy, the Berlinale, the Dawson City International Short Film Festival and at Cannes Critics Week. His first feature, THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2019), was awarded the 2020 FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale. He lives in Montréal.

  1. 1. THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE
  2. 2. DROWNING DRY
  3. 3. SALVE MARIA
  4. 4. THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD
  5. 5. MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY
  6. 6. UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
  7. 7. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES
  8. 8. FAMILIAR TOUCH
  9. 9. THE SECOND ACT
  10. 10. GRAND TOUR
  11. 11. HOLY COW
  12. 12. THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
  13. 13. GOOD ONE
  14. 14. POOJA, SIR
  15. 15. ALL SHALL BE WELL
  16. 16. QUEENS
  17. 17. BLACK DOG
  18. 18. LIONESS
  19. 19. DYING
  20. 20. ARMAND
  21. 21. SHAMBHALA
  22. 22. WAVES
  23. 23. OUR LOVELY PIG SLAUGHTER
  24. 24. THE HYPERBOREANS
  25. 25. ARCADIA
  26. 26. THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
  27. 27. TO A LAND UNKNOWN
  28. 28. ALGIERS
  29. 29. TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE
  30. 30. BREATHING UNDERWATER
  31. 31. LA CASA
  32. 32. THE LAST ROMANTICS
  33. 33. STEALING ANGEL
  34. 34. THE EXILES
  35. 35. SHEPHERDS
  36. 36. GLIMMERS
  37. 37. LILIES NOT FOR ME
  38. 38. ANORA
  39. 39. QUIET LIFE
  40. 40. SEPTEMBER SAYS
  41. 41. THREE DAYS OF FISH
  42. 42. KYUKA: BEFORE SUMMER'S END
  43. 43. A HOUSE ON FIRE
  44. 44. LITTLE LOVES
  45. 45. DON’T YOU LET ME GO
  46. 46. NAWI
  47. 47. THE TIES THAT BIND US
  48. 48. THROUGH ROCKS AND CLOUDS
  49. 49. MY FRIEND AN DELIE
  50. 50. ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES
  51. 51. YOUNG HEARTS
  52. 52. JANUARY 2
  53. 53. AN UNFINISHED FILM
  54. 54. FOUR MOTHERS
  55. 55. ON FALLING
  56. 56. BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY
  57. 57. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
  58. 58. THE PARTY’S OVER
  59. 59. THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
  60. 60. MEASURES FOR THE FUNERAL
  61. 61. MOON
  62. 62. IVO
  63. 63. HAPPY HOLIDAYS
  64. 64. SIMA’S SONG
  65. 65. FLATHEAD
  66. 66. WINDLESS
  67. 67. MISERICORDIA
  68. 68. MONGREL
  69. 69. ACROSS THE SEA
  70. 70. THE DOG THIEF
  71. 71. PAYING FOR IT
  72. 72. FREWAKA
  73. 73. CROCODILE TEARS
  74. 74. THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY
  75. 75. FARUK
  76. 76. THE SHAMELESS
  77. 77. RED PATH
  78. 78. YASHA AND LEONID BREZHNEV
  79. 79. RICKERL
  80. 80. SLEEPING WITH A TIGER