His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

Groucho Marx, the mustached master of wit and cigar-chomping sarcasm, was not only a genius of comedy but also a man with a ...

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

Director Matthew Rankin's dry, eccentric charmer features a man who sings to his turkey and something called the Winnepeg ...