UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

By Matthew RANKIN

BEST FRIEND FOREVER - as SALES

Comedy - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2024
Toronto - TIFF 2024
Centrepiece
Busan IFF 2024
World Cinema
Thessaloniki IFF 2024
Open Horizons - Main
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • FARSI, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 89 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Matthew RANKIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Sylvain CORBEIL (Metafilms)
    • Synopsis
    • In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.

      Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother.

      Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.