It is, Rankin said, the greatest producer of Christmas movies in the world. “I think something like 3,000 Hallmark movies are ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and ...

Director Matthew Rankin’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest Tim Horton’s ever designed — has the same title in English and French, ...