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

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