Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” is likely the first story to take place in its setting: an alternate Winnipeg, Canada, where the Persian language is dominant, wild turkeys freely roam the ...

It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto has been substituted for the Big Apple. Matthew Rankin, though, has gone ...

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 ...

Universal Language (2025) (Une Langue Universelle), directed by Matthew Rankin and written by Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati is a sensational marriage of film traditions. With deep influences from ...

Legend has it that once upon a time, people all spoke the same language. They decided to build a city and a tower as high as possible, to get closer to God. God, annoyed by this act of defiance by ...