Photo: Maryse Boyce Spoilers follow for Universal Language , released in theaters February 14 and available for digital rental as of April 8. In the movie Universal Language , Winnipeg becomes a sort of alternate-reality version of Tehran. When filmmaker Matthew Rankin and his co-writers, Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati, screened their movie in those cities, the Iranians who saw the film thought it had been made just for them and so did the Canadians. That’s the whole point of Universal