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Feature film - CDN 2024 - 89' - OmeU

Director: Matthew Rankin

The best Iranian film ever made by a Canadian. Matthew Rankin (THE TWENTIETH CENTURY) transforms his hometown of Winnipeg into a mixture of French Canadian snow desert and Tehran circa 1985 for his loving homage to filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi. What sounds like a staircase joke for film nerds has become a heart-rending comedy full of poetry and surreal humor. It deservedly won the Audience Award in the Quinzaine des cinéastes section at Cannes this year.

All about the power of images in film, pop culture, art and society. At FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE from October 17-24, 2024 and always online.

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