Year
2024
Length
1h29m
Language
Farsi, French
Universal Language
Matthew Rankin
Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to get it out. Massoud leads a group of increasingly-confused tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his mother. Time, geography and personal identities crossfade, interweave and collide into a surreal comedy of disorientation.
Followed by a discussion with director Matthew Rankin.
Director
Matthew Rankin
Screenwriter
Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Ila Firouzabadi
Director of photography
Isabelle Stachtchenko
Composer
Amir Amiri, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux
Cast
Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Mani Soleymanlou
Editor
Xi Feng
Country
Canada
Type
Feature film
Category
Fiction
Subtitle
English
23 August 21:00 to 22:29
Théâtre de Lac-Brome
Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied history at McGill University and Université Laval.
He has directed around forty films — documentaries, fiction, and animation — which have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, TIFF, the Berlinale, and Cannes (Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight).
His first feature film, The Twentieth Century, won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale in 2020 and the Best Canadian First Feature Film Award at TIFF in 2019.
His second feature, Universal Language, won the inaugural Audience Award at the 55th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
Matthew currently lives in Montreal.