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Directors’ Fortnight: Matthew Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ Wins Inaugural Audience Award; Europa Cinema & SACD Prize Winners


Directors' Fortnight Winners: Matthew Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ Wins Inaugural Audience Award + Europa Cinema & SACD Prizes

Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it, while Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg and Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. The feature is produced by Sylvain Corbeil’s Metafilms, the indie production company behind the films of Xavier Dolan and hits such as The Nature of Love, Falcon Lake, Felix and Meira. Resisting the darkness of the world, the solitude of early gray mornings, this female dog of life that runs away… it’s Sophie’s last battle cry, her viaticum for eternity, and her best joke.”

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