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
Lasse Hallström, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Liv Ullmann, Jerry Schatzberg, Régis Wargnier, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Spike Lee, Francis Girod, Raymond Depardon, Lucian Pintilie, Wim Wenders, Patrice Leconte, Merzak Allouache, Fernando Trueba, Vicente Aranda, David Lynch, Hugh Hudson, Abbas Kiarostami, Claude Miller, Jacques Rivette, Theo Angelopoulos, Costa-Gavras, Gabriel Axel, Zhang Yimou, Nadine Trintignant, Michael Haneke, Andrei Konchalovsky, John Boorman, Alain Corneau, James Ivory, Peter Greenaway, Gaston Kaboré, Claude Lelouch, Yoshishige Yoshida, Ismail Merchant, Youssef Chahine, Cédric Klapisch, Bigas Luna, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jaco Van Dormael
Liam Neeson
(segment "John Boorman")
Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Alan Rickman
(segment "John Boorman")
Lena Olin
(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
Liv Ullmann
Stephen Rea
(segment "John Boorman")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Nathalie Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Ticky Holgado
(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Pascal Duquenne
(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

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