Drama
Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what's happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they've spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son's death. Tones vary, as do the locales. Most concern coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.
Directed by
Youssef Chahine, Claude Lelouch, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Sean Penn, Shōhei Imamura, Danis Tanović, Amos Gitai, Idrissa Ouedraogo
Written by
Youssef Chahine, Claude Lelouch, Paul Laverty, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Marie-Jose Sanselme, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Vladimir Vega, Pierre Uytterhoeven, Sabrina Dhawan, Danis Tanović, Daisuke Tengan, Amos Gitai, Idrissa Ouedraogo
Sean Penn
Tanvi Azmi
Talat Hamdani (segment "India")
Ernest Borgnine
Old Man (segment "USA")
Akira Emoto
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Kumiko Aso
Sae Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Jacques Perrin
Mitsuko Baisho
Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Tomorowo Taguchi
Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Ken Ogata
Villager (segment "Japan")
Sanaa Younes
Mother (segment "Egypt")
Nour El-Sherif
Youssef Chahine (segment "Egypt")
Salif Keita
Ahmed Fouad Selim
Father (segment "Egypt")
Kapil Bawa
Salim Hamdani (segment "India")
Keren Mor
Journalist (segment "Israel")
Maher Essam
Palestinian (segment "Egypt")
Maryam Karimi
Teacher (segment "Iran")
Emmanuelle Laborit
She (segment "France")
Jérôme Horry
Him (segment "France")
Tomer Russo
Paramedic (segment "Israel")
Hassan Rezai
Child (segment "Iran")
Agelem Habibi
Child (segment "Iran")
Ahmed Haroun
G'I (segment "Egypt")
Ameneh Banizadeh
Child (segment "Iran")
Esmat Vahedi
Child (segment "Iran")
Mohamad Dolati
Child (segment "Iran")
Najibeh Habibi
Child (segment "Iran")
Razieh Jafari
Child (segment "Iran")
Vladimir Vega
Khaled El Sheikh

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