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