Events & Gatherings
Cinema at the Museum: Universal Language (with Director Matthew Rankin)
Remai Modern is pleased to present a special presentation, and the Saskatchewan premiere, of Universal Language with director Matthew Rankin in attendance! The film is Canada’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.
Wednesday, February 5, 7 PM
Film: Universal Language
Director: Matthew Rankin
Year: 2024
Runtime: 89 minutes
Country: Canada
Rating: G
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists on an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother. Time, geography and personal identities crossfade, interweave and collide into a surreal comedy of disorientation.
Presented in Farsi & French with English subtitles
A Q&A with director Matthew Rankin will take place following this screening of Universal Language.
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
February 5 at 7:00PM–9:00PM
Where
SaskTel Theatre
February 5 at 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied history at McGill and Université Laval. He is the director of some 40 short films and two features which have been presented at Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, TIFF, the Berlinale, Cannes Critics Week and Directors Fortnight and on the Criterion Channel. His first feature, The Twentieth Century, was awarded the FIPRESCI prize of the international film critics at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival and the 2019 Best First Canadian Feature Award at TIFF. Universal Language, winner of the inaugural People’s Choice Award presented by the Chantal Akerman Foundation at the 2024 Cannes Directors Fortnight, is Matthew’s second feature. He lives in Montréal.
Special thanks to Films D’Olive & Maison 4:3 for assisting with this screening.
This film was selected by our film programming team from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Film tickets are $10 at the front desk; free admission for members and youth under 18. Seating is first come, first served. Talks, tours and other events are admission by donation or free with membership.