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Universal Language آواز بوقلمون
Une langue universelle est un film du Québec et du Manitoba, co-écrit et réalisé par Matthew Rankin, et sorti en 2024[1]. Il s’agit du deuxième long métrage de fiction du réalisateur montréalais, né à Winnipeg[2].
Le film est sélectionné comme candidat canadien pour l’Oscar du meilleur film international lors de la 97e cérémonie des Oscars en 2025[3].
Universal Language is a 2024 Canadian absurdist comedy-drama film, co-written and directed by Matthew Rankin, and selected as the Canadian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.
The film is set in an alternate reality in which Persian, rather than English, is the dominant language of Canada, although it remains in coexistence with French.
Described as a “surreal comedy of disorientation” set “somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg”, the film blends the initially unrelated, but gradually converging, stories of Negin (Rojina Esmaeili) and Nazgol (Saba Vahedyousefi), who find money frozen in ice and try to claim it; Massoud (Pirouz Nemati), a tour guide in Winnipeg who is leading a confused and disoriented tour group; and Matthew (Rankin), who quits his unfulfilling job with the government of Quebec and travels home to Winnipeg to visit his mother.
In Farsi, with Sub-titles in English
This is part of the Cinéma Québec Series, a collaboration between AFKO and the Capitol Theatre.