Guest expected on January 5
Film Festival 2025
In this whimsical ensemble comedy, two kids find a banknote frozen in ice, a tour guide leads baffled visitors, and a government drone returns home to uncover something amiss with his family, creating a mosaic of wintry Winnipeg that’s both comically surreal and profoundly human.
Congratulations to the Universal Language team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
Congratulations to the Universal Language team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
film details
| Director: | Matthew Rankin |
| Producers: | Sylvain Corbeil |
| Screenwriter: | Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Ila Firouzabadi |
| Cinematographers: | Isabelle Stachtchenko |
| Editor: | Xi Feng |
| Music: | Amir Amiri, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux |
| Cast: | Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Sobhan Javadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou, Danielle Fichaud, Bahram Nabatian, Ila Firouzabadi, Hemela Pourafzal, Dara Najmabadi |
| Original Language Title: | Une Langue Universelle |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | In Farsi and French with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Running Time: | 89 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | The Twentieth Century (2019) |
| Awards: | Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight; Best Canadian Discovery Award, Toronto International Film Festival |
| Primary Company: | Oscilloscope Laboratories |
| Contact Email: | info@oscilloscope.net |
| Website: | https://universallanguage.oscilloscope.net |