Film: Universal Language,
March 15 - 16 at OKCMOA
Shortlisted for the 2025 Best International Feature Oscar, Matthew Rankin’s charming Kiarostami-inspired comedy conjures a surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, where the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.
In French and Farsi with English subtitles (89 minutes)
“Winner of the inaugural Directors’ Fortnight audience award at Cannes this year, Matthew Rankin’s follow-up to his eccentric, surreal The Twentieth Century is a gentle sort of comedy, settling us down in a reimagined Canada where Persian and French are the two official languages… and loneliness is the common currency.