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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE - a wild Winnipeg/Tehran surreal comedy, one of the year's most original indie movies

Mar 11 thru 13
Tue to Thu 4:30, 6:30pm

Dir. Matthew Rankin - 2024 - 89m - Canada - In Persian, French & English with English subtitles - Valid for Punch Cards

Winner of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival inaugural Audience Award in the Director's Fortnight section!


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.


"Might be the best picture I’ve seen at Cannes." - Bilge Ebiri, New York and Vulture


"A wildly creative exercise in prairie surrealism that offers a hopeful alternative vision to the anxious political moment. " - Liam Lacey, Original Cin


"A gently funny, gently moving, slightly surrealist little comedy that’s aimed at two groups of people: Canadians, specifically but not exclusively those who know Winnipeg, and aficionados of Iranian cinema." - Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times

March 11, 2025

4:30 PM

March 12, 2025

4:30 PM

March 13, 2025

4:30 PM

March 11, 2025

6:30 PM

March 12, 2025

6:30 PM

March 13, 2025

6:30 PM

Phantom of the Opera 6:00 — $20

See both live film scores! — $35

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 8:00 — $20

3405 Central Avenue NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-255-1848

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