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

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