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

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