Jünglinge Film is set to tackle right-wing violence with a new legal thriller while developing series projects with X Filme ...

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 ...

Independent production company and financier Gold Rush Pictures is a co-producer of Tom Tykwer's 'The Light,' which opens the ...

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

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

You’ll be scratching your head throughout “Universal Language,” that is, when you’re not howling. I am at a loss to explain ...

Two Christians who were released from prison in Iran in 2022 and 2023 respectively were re-arrested last Thursday, advocacy ...

Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

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

Described by writer-director Matthew Rankin as a piece of "autobiographical hallucination," this wonderfully deadpan whatsit is the work of a white 43-year-old Canadian man who fe ...

With deep influences from the French and Iranian New Waves, Universal Language is equal parts a moving experience and a ...