Universal Language- Monday Cinema Monday, March 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM PDT
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Universal Language
at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail Advance ticket holder names will be on a list at Royal Theatre. Give the volunteers your name upon arrival; no need to come to the Bailey Theatre to pick anything up!
Monday, March 10 @ 4 pm Doors open at 3:30 pm. Language: Persian, French / Duration: 1 hr 29 mins / Genre: Comedy, Drama / Rating: General
SUBTITLES
Content Advisory: coarse language
$13/person - No assigned seating. Only 143 seats available.
Set in a mysterious and surreal reimagined Winnipeg we are introduced to a charmingly impossible Canada where Persian and French are the two official languages, and loneliness is the common currency.
An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories, the film follows a group of children on eccentric quests to flummox the adults around them, a man who leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg, and the government worker who returns home only to find his family is not what he remembered.
Universal Language is a loving exploration of a diasporic nation, filtered through a deadpan comic sensibility that will feel like a warm blanket to fans of Wes Anderson and Aki Kaurismaki.
Dir: Matthew Rankin / Featuring: Rojina Esmaeili, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin, Saba Vahedyousefi, / Country: Canada / Language: Persian, French / Duration: 1 hr 29 mins / Genre: Comedy, Drama / Rating: General SUBTITLES
“...a brilliantly bizarre comedy that imagines a Canada where the two official languages are Farsi and French.” - Saffron Maeve, Sight and Sound
“An off-kilter creation that feels like the wacko offspring of Aki Kaurismäki and Abbas Kiarostami’s cinemas.” - Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“Universal Language is a magnificent film, one that feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.” - Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/y-373fptEXI
Canadian Oscar Submission, Best International Feature Film (2025) 98% Rotten Tomatoes Content Advisory: coarse language
The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.
Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.
Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Bailey Theatre Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm. Advance ticket holders' names will appear on the door attendance list; NO PHYSICAL TICKETS TO PICK UP BEFORE THE FILM. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue 30 minutes before the screening for cash only. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time.
Films in the Monday Cinema series:
Jan. 13: Goodrich - 4pm and 7pm - Andy Goodrich's life is upended when his wife enters a rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. So, Goodrich leans on Grace, his daughter from his first marriage, for help.
Jan. 20: In the Summers - 4pm only -Two sisters find their relationships to their loving but volatile father changing over the course of yearly summer visits to his New Mexico home.
Jan. 27: All Stirred Up! (Tous Toqués) - 4pm and 7pm - A French chef looking for fame, tries to help a young girl win a culinary competition amidst the hostility of an entire village who dislike her mother, the local customs officer.
Feb. 3: Drive Back Home - 4pm only - In the winter of 1970, after being caught for public indecency in a local Toronto park a man is bailed out by his cantankerous, conservative brother and must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick with him. Inspired by a true story.
Feb. 10: Small Things Like These - 4pm only - A devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent, forcing him to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
No film Feb. 17 for Family Day
Feb. 24: Shepherds (Bergers) - A Montréal copywriter sets out to reinvent himself as a sheep herder in the French Alps despite knowing literally nothing about the centuries-old craft, in this adaptation from director and co-writer Sophie Deraspe.
Mar. 3: The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar directs powerhouse performances from Academy Award® winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as Ingrid and Martha, close friends in their youth brought back together after years of being out of touch, in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Mar. 10: Universal Language - In a mysterious and surreal reimagined Winnipeg, where Persian and French are the two official languages, a group of children go on eccentric quests, a man leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the city, and a man returns home to find his family is not what he remembered.
Universal Language
at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail Advance ticket holder names will be on a list at Royal Theatre. Give the volunteers your name upon arrival; no need to come to the Bailey Theatre to pick anything up!
Monday, March 10 @ 4 pm Doors open at 3:30 pm. Language: Persian, French / Duration: 1 hr 29 mins / Genre: Comedy, Drama / Rating: General
SUBTITLES
Content Advisory: coarse language
$13/person - No assigned seating. Only 143 seats available.
Set in a mysterious and surreal reimagined Winnipeg we are introduced to a charmingly impossible Canada where Persian and French are the two official languages, and loneliness is the common currency.
An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories, the film follows a group of children on eccentric quests to flummox the adults around them, a man who leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg, and the government worker who returns home only to find his family is not what he remembered.
Universal Language is a loving exploration of a diasporic nation, filtered through a deadpan comic sensibility that will feel like a warm blanket to fans of Wes Anderson and Aki Kaurismaki.
Dir: Matthew Rankin / Featuring: Rojina Esmaeili, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin, Saba Vahedyousefi, / Country: Canada / Language: Persian, French / Duration: 1 hr 29 mins / Genre: Comedy, Drama / Rating: General SUBTITLES
“...a brilliantly bizarre comedy that imagines a Canada where the two official languages are Farsi and French.” - Saffron Maeve, Sight and Sound
“An off-kilter creation that feels like the wacko offspring of Aki Kaurismäki and Abbas Kiarostami’s cinemas.” - Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“Universal Language is a magnificent film, one that feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.” - Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/y-373fptEXI
Canadian Oscar Submission, Best International Feature Film (2025) 98% Rotten Tomatoes Content Advisory: coarse language
The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.
Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.
Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Bailey Theatre Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm. Advance ticket holders' names will appear on the door attendance list; NO PHYSICAL TICKETS TO PICK UP BEFORE THE FILM. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue 30 minutes before the screening for cash only. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time.
Films in the Monday Cinema series:
Jan. 13: Goodrich - 4pm and 7pm - Andy Goodrich's life is upended when his wife enters a rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. So, Goodrich leans on Grace, his daughter from his first marriage, for help.
Jan. 20: In the Summers - 4pm only -Two sisters find their relationships to their loving but volatile father changing over the course of yearly summer visits to his New Mexico home.
Jan. 27: All Stirred Up! (Tous Toqués) - 4pm and 7pm - A French chef looking for fame, tries to help a young girl win a culinary competition amidst the hostility of an entire village who dislike her mother, the local customs officer.
Feb. 3: Drive Back Home - 4pm only - In the winter of 1970, after being caught for public indecency in a local Toronto park a man is bailed out by his cantankerous, conservative brother and must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick with him. Inspired by a true story.
Feb. 10: Small Things Like These - 4pm only - A devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent, forcing him to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
No film Feb. 17 for Family Day
Feb. 24: Shepherds (Bergers) - A Montréal copywriter sets out to reinvent himself as a sheep herder in the French Alps despite knowing literally nothing about the centuries-old craft, in this adaptation from director and co-writer Sophie Deraspe.
Mar. 3: The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar directs powerhouse performances from Academy Award® winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as Ingrid and Martha, close friends in their youth brought back together after years of being out of touch, in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Mar. 10: Universal Language - In a mysterious and surreal reimagined Winnipeg, where Persian and French are the two official languages, a group of children go on eccentric quests, a man leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the city, and a man returns home to find his family is not what he remembered.
Venue
Royal Theatre
1597 Bay Ave
Trail BC V1R 4A9