Matthew Rankin’s whimsical, cerebral comedy takes place in a version of the northern nation that is full of Iranian ...

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

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

Ed Sheeran definitely knows how to make his wife feel special!To mark Valentine’s Day and wish his beloved wife, Cherry ...

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

Director Matthew Rankin's odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history - and featuring the coziest ...

So we decided that you should act as an English language teacher to a Persian speaker. I will send you words in English and you will have the task of creating a sentence to remember the meaning of ...

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

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

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

Tehran comes to Winnipeg in 'Universal Language,' Matthew Rankin's singular gem about cross-cultural exchange.