05-08-1980
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
10
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Winnipeg, Canada
Place of Birth
05-08-1980
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
10
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Winnipeg, Canada
Place of Birth
actor
10 Works
producer
4 Works
director
50 Works
writer
10 Works
other
13 Works
Mademoiselle Kenopsia
Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. Both a custodian of the premises and a ghostly presence, she becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.Year:
2023
Au revoir pluton
Year:
-
Universal Language
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.Year:
2024
Before I Change My Mind
1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.Year:
2024
This House
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.Year:
2022
A Grief Observed
Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.Year:
2020
A Fortress
After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who has the power of resurrection.Year:
2018
This Is an Official Message
In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity entirely in Esperanto, the artificial language of world peace.Year:
2015
The Phantom of the Cinematheque
On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an avalanche of VHS tapes while working late to finish the programming calendar. His workaholic ghost returns to the land of the living to finish the calendar and haunt the Cinematheque by night.Year:
2008
Sharhé-Halé Shakhsi: M. Rankin
Self-portrait of the filmmaker seen through the mystical postmodern prism of Iranian cinemaYear:
2008
