September 11
11’09”01 – September 11 (original title)
Directed by
Samira Makhmalbaf, Amos Gitai, Shōhei Imamura, Ken Loach, Idrissa Ouedraogo
Synopsis
Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what's happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they've spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son's death. Tones vary, as do the locales. Most concern coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.
Cast and Crew
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, Jérôme Horry, Keren Mor, Tomer Russo, Tanvi Azmi, Kapil Bawa, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kumiko Aso, Akira Emoto, Mitsuko Baisho, Ken Ogata, Hassan Rezai, Nour El-Sherif, Sanaa Younes, Maher Essam, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Agelem Habibi, Ahmed Haroun
Writers: Youssef Chahine (Writer), Sabrina Dhawan (Writer), Samira Makhmalbaf (Writer), Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Writer), Paul Laverty (Writer), Amos Gitai (Writer), Ken Loach (Writer), Claude Lelouch (Writer), Daisuke Tengan (Writer), Sean Penn (Writer), Idrissa Ouedraogo (Writer), Vladimir Vega (Writer), Marie-Jose Sanselme (Writer), Pierre Uytterhoeven (Writer), Danis Tanović (Writer)
Cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafori, Yoav Kosh
Production Designer: Stephanie Carroll, Kemal Hrustanović
Editors: Rashida Abdel Salam, Jay Cassidy
Sound Designer: Dominique Hennequin
Composer: Duško Šegvić, Taro Iwashiro
Costume Designer: Khaled El Sheikh, Monia Fath El Bab
Producers: Nicolas Mauvernay, Jacques Perrin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Production: Galatée Films, StudioCanal