Still from Universal Language (2024), dir. Matthew Rankin, with Rojina Esmaeili as “Negin” (image courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories) In Universal Language, director Matthew Rankin transforms the ...
There’s a notion in the film industry that comedies don’t travel. Jokes have a regional audience, and humor gets lost in translation, the thinking goes. But director Matthew Rankin thinks more of ...
A surrealist comedy set in the Iranian community in Winnipeg, Universal Language weaves a web of stories that intertwine (seemingly) involuntarily: that of Negin and Nazol, who find money frozen in ...