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UNIVERSAL
LANGUAGE
"Universal Language" (2024) IndieLisboa Festival, this work individuality and collaboration
highlights an essential warns of the risk of language (or lack thereof) between
paradox: although a common becoming a tool of power and communities.
language could facilitate global exclusion, rather than inclusion,
communication, linguistic if it is not accompanied by Thus, Rankin's film invites
diversity represents the a recognition of cultural us to consider that, despite
plurality of human and cultural differences. This message is our differences, the effort to
experiences that would be particularly relevant in an communicate is what truly
impoverished if lost. The increasingly globalised world, unites people—more than
film invites us to consider where the dominance of certain a common language. This
that effective communication languages, such as English, reflection, however laden with
does not depend solely on a raises serious questions about symbolism and some allegorical
standardised language but also linguistic justice. In a reinvented exaggeration, is both historical
on will and mutual respect Canada, the journey of several and urgent in the globalised
between individuals. characters builds a cohesive world in which we live.
The opening film of the 2025 narrative, strongly supported by SARA QUELHAS
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