SHORTLISTED: 97th Academy Awards, Best Int. Feature
WINNER: CANNES FILM FEST, Directors Fortnight Award WINNER: MIFF, Bright Horizons Award
WINNER: TIFF, Best Canadian Discovery Award
WINNER: THESSALONIKI INT. FILM FEST, Best Feature 2024
WINNER: STOCKHOLM INT. FILM FEST, Best Director 2024
WINNER: GENEVA INT. FILM FEST, Reflet d’Or 2024
WINNER: NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW, Top 5 Int. Films
WINNER: Toronto Film Critic Association, Roger Best Canadian Film Award WINNER: National Board of Review: Top 5 Int'Films
Universal Language
is showing at Melbourne’s Inner North
NEW boutique Collingwood CINEMA
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Dir. Matthew Rankin | Comedy | Canada | 89 mins
WINNER: Lost Weekend Film Club, Avant Robot Award
WINNER: CIFF Calgary, RBC Emerging Canadian Artist
WINNER: MonteCarlo Comedy Fest, Best Director 2024
WINNER: Bangkok World Film Festival, Best Director 2024
WINNER: Viennale, FIPRESCI Prize – Best Film 2024
WINNER: VIFF, Summit Award – Best Canadian Film
WINNER: Montclair Film Festival: Junior Jury – Prize (Cinematography) Isabelle Stachtchenko 2024
WINNER: Piccolo Grande Cinema: Best Film – International Competition - Matthew Rankin 2024 WINNER: Filmfest Hamburg: Arthouse Cinema Award
WINNER: Loft Film Fest: Arthouse Cinema Award
WINNER: Directors Guild of Canada Awards: Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award
WINNER: Pingyao International Film Festival: Best Film + People's Choice Award
WINNER: Palm Springs International Film Festival: Best International Feature Film
WINNER: The CAFTCAD Awards: Best Costume Design in Film – Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Negar Nemati 2025
WINNER: Piccolo Grande Cinema: Best Film – International Competition - Matthew Rankin
★★★★★ " the viewer’s soul feels truly full by the film’s end. One of the finest films you can see in cinemas this year.
Tom Augustine, VIEW MAGAZINE
★★★★☆ "UNVERSAL LANGUAGE is one of the more remarkable films of the decade."
Kate Rodgers on Jesse’s RNZ AFTERNOON
10/10. The more I reflect on it, the more I am impressed. FREMANTLE SHIPPING NEWS
4.5/5. Quirky, absurdist, brilliant, and irresistible. GLAM ADELAIDE
The best movie at Cannes this year is an oddball Canadian comedy. Universal Language is a magnificent film. NEW YORK VULTURE
Matthew Rankin channels the best of Iranian Cinema in absurdist Canadian comedy... Backdrops that recall the locations in Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime... VARIETY
A beguiling, surrealist ode to Persian cinema… will call to mind both Wes and Roy Anders(s)on... It’s like nothing I’ve seen in Cannes this year. THE FILM STAGE
One of the most exciting directors working today, with his unique visual style and penchant for challenging narrative conventions indicating a bright future as a filmmaker… A tremendously captivating comedy. INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY
A magnificent film, one that feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is. VULTURE
Universal Language’ is delightfully absurdist, with little moments in each story that both make sense yet defy expectations. As disorienting as it is delightful. ROGER EBERT
Deeply weird, delightfully strange, inspiringly imaginative and genuinely heartfelt. PASTE MAGAZINE
In a mysterious & surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran & Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising & mysterious ways.
Gradeschoolers Negin & Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice & try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments & 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.
This Life Of Mine
Dir. Sophie Fillières | Comedy | France | 99 Mins
Winner of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival SACD Best Screenplay award and opening night film of the Cannes Director’s Fortnight section, Sophie Fillières' THIS LIFE OF MINE is a sharply funny and deeply resonant take on midlife crises. With her signature wit and humour, Fillières delivers a tender portrait of a woman navigating the chaos of family, work, and the absurdities of aging.
Barberie "Barbie" Bichette (Agnès Jaoui, Place Publique, AF FFF19) is a woman under siege: her kids cringe at her quirks, her soul-crushing copywriting job barely inspires her, and her body feels like it’s rebelling. Caught between hot flushes and existential dread, Barbie stumbles through the comedy of life at 55.
“Few filmmakers working in comedy have ever been quite as subtle, quite as attuned to quiet cadences as Sophie Fillières.”
INDIEWIRE
“A highly personal and darkly amusing chronicle”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
NIKI
(Niki De Saint Phalle)
Dir. Céline Sallette | Drama | France | 98 Mins
Starring Charlotte Le Bon (White Lotus 2025) in the titular role. Escaping the grip of 1950s America, a young Niki de Saint Phalle arrives in Paris desperate to find freedom and self-expression. While navigating motherhood, Niki’s haunted past emerges — until trauma explodes into uncontainable, revolutionary art.
Iconic artist Niki de Saint Phalle shattered rigid expectations of womanhood, forging a fearless new language of feminism through bold, explosive art. Against all odds, she transformed personal pain into monumental works like HON, the 25M long supine pregnant woman where the public enter the scuplture via the vagina” espousing female strength and the unapologetic power of womanhood, emerging as a trailblazing force: sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and fearless feminist.
NIKI is not just a biopic — it is a visceral, visually rich meditation on resilience, female agency, and the unstoppable drive to create ART.
The release of NIKI the movie, coincides with the opening of the landmark Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris from JUNE 26, 2025.
Before What Comes After
(Le Dernier Souffle)
Dir. Costa-Gavras | Drama | France | 100 Mins
BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER celebrates life through the lens of death, by renowned Multi-Academy Award winning Director Costa-Gavras.
A stunning philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death...
A number of vignettes in which the palliative doctor guides his patients and family through fear, anxieties & decisions around the end of their lives… A poetic ballet, where each patient is a tome of emotions, laughter and tears… A journey to the throbbing heart of our loves and lives.
“End-of-life drama is softly reflective and profoundly moving.”
DEADLINE
“Therapeutic cinema at it’s finest”
DMOVIES
”A truly marvelous film.”
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