Universal Language 2024 G
Production still from Universal Language 2024 / Director: Matthew Rankin / Image courtesy: Wonderfilm / View full image
When
6.00 pm, Fri 8 Aug 2025 (89 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema B
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
"Matthew Rankin’s hometown of Winnipeg is transformed by an imaginary museum of images, languages, and film references in his sophomore feature, cowritten with Iranian artist Ila Firouzabadi and actor Pirouz Nemati. With its Tati-esque humour, homages to Iranian cinema (especially Abbas Kiarostami’s mystical adventures of children in a grownup world), and an attention to detail reminiscent of Wes Anderson, Universal Language is a feast for the senses of passionate, melancholic film lovers. Its unique, often comic stories of children and adults dealing with grief, loneliness, and displacement before finding meaning in friendship and family open like cracks in the ice - giving way to a flood of emotions in a remarkably humanist tale." MoMA
G | Very mild themes
Production Credits
- Director: Matthew Rankin
- Script: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin
- Cinematographer: Isabelle Stachtchenko
- Editor: Xi Feng
- Cast: Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Sobhan Javadi
- Print Source: Wonderfilm
- Rights: Wonderfilm
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Country: Canada
- Languages: French, Farsi
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Dolby 5.1
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: Digital
- Screening Format: DCP