Drama Documentary
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Directed by
Wim Wenders, Andrei Konchalovsky, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Spike Lee, Gaston Kaboré, Liv Ullmann, Jacques Rivette, Nadine Trintignant, Arthur Penn, David Lynch, John Boorman, Régis Wargnier, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Hugh Hudson, Alain Corneau, Francis Girod, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Patrice Leconte, Raymond Depardon, Bigas Luna, Cédric Klapisch, Jerry Schatzberg, Jaco Van Dormael, Lasse Hallström, Peter Greenaway, Theo Angelopoulos, Michael Haneke, Costa-Gavras, Yoshishige Yoshida, Merzak Allouache, Sarah Moon, Gabriel Axel, Claude Miller, Ismail Merchant, Lucian Pintilie, Vicente Aranda, Claude Lelouch, Zhang Yimou, Youssef Chahine, Fernando Trueba
Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")
Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")
Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Liv Ullmann
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

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