Matthew Rankin
Biography: Matthew Rankin (born August 5, 1980; Winnipeg) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. He is most noted for his feature-length debut, The Twentieth Century, which premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three. He has also received accolades for his 2014 film Mynarski Death Plummet, which was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards and a shortlisted Jutra Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 17th Jutra Awards, and his 2017 film The Tesla World Light, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards and received an Honourable Mention for the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. He has also had occasional small acting roles in other directors' films, most recently the 2022 films This House (Cette maison) and Before I Change My Mind.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 05, 1980
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This House
2022-11-04
This House
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Before I Change My Mind
2024-03-01
Before I Change My Mind
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-01
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The Phantom of the Cinematheque
2008-03-01
The Phantom of the Cinematheque
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-01
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Au revoir pluton
Au revoir pluton
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Genres: Family
Original Language: fr
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A Fortress
2018-09-27
A Fortress
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Mademoiselle Kenopsia
2023-08-05
Mademoiselle Kenopsia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-05
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Universal Language
2024-12-18
Universal Language
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-18
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A Grief Observed
2020-07-16
A Grief Observed
Overview: Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-16
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This Is an Official Message
2015-10-07
This Is an Official Message
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-07
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