O Canada Film Series: Universal Language + In the Shallows
Thursday, 7 p.m.–8:45 p.m.
Event Info
O Canada Film Series: Universal Language + In the Shallows
December 4, 2025
Humanities Quadrangle, L02
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Free
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin, 2024, DCP, 89 mins)
In the Shallows (Arash Akhgari, 2024, DCP, 4 mins)
Two recent releases foreground our era’s feelings of dislocation and fractured communication…but in a good way. The absurdist satire Universal Language—winner of the Audience Award at Cannes—gives us three converging stories set in an off-kilter alterna-Winnipeg. “For connoisseurs of the poetic bizarre” (Ty Burr). In Persian and French with English subtitles. Universal Language DCP from Oscilloscope, In the Shallows DCP from the National Film Board of Canada.
The “O Canada” film series presents a selection of features and shorts from the True North strong and free.
For further information:
filmarchive@yale.edu
Open To:
undergraduate, faculty, alumni, Cultivating Conversations, Yale Postdoctoral Trainees, All Ages, General Public, Graduate and Professional, Spouses and Partners, Staff