His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and ...

At his disposal this campaign, though, are several new players who at their best, could take the club by storm. Alex ...

Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

Both a valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin's comedy is ...

There’s not one word in English, not even “Do you speak English?” Filmmaker Matthew Rankin is a Canadian history scholar who switched tracks from academia to art. Maybe there’s something ...

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...