11'09"01 September 11 [videorecording] : a film / Studio Canal ; Galatee Films presents ; a Galatee Films / StudioCanal production ; producers, Jacques Perrin, Nicolas Mauvernay.
Based on an original idea by Alain Brigand. Maryam Karimi (Iran), Emmanuelle Laborit, Jérôme Horry (France), Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Seif Eldine (Egypt), Dzana Pinjo, Aleksandar Seksan, Tatjana Sojic (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Lionel Zizréel Guire (Burkina Faso), Vladimir Vega (UK), Keren Mor, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo (Israel), Tanvi Azmi, Kapil Bawa, Taleb Adlah (India), Ernest Borgnine (USA), Tomorowo Taguchi, Kumiko Aso ; narrator, Ken Ogata (Japan). Special features: Trailers (5 min.); Director's bios [text feature].
Contents:
Japan / directed by Shohei Imamura ; written by Daisuke Tengan ; directors of photography, Masakazu Oka, Toshihiro Seino ; editor, Hajime Okayasu (11 min.). France / written and directed by Claude Lelouch ; adaptation and dialogue, Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven ; director of photography, Pierre-William Glenn ; editor, Stéphane Mazalaigue (11 min.) -- Egypt / written and directed by Youssef Chahine ; director of photography, Mohsen Nasr ; editor, Rashida Abd El-Salam (11 min.) -- Bosnia-Herzegovina / written and directed by Danis Tanović ; director of photography, Dunja Klemenc ; editor, Monique Rysselinck (11 min.) -- Burkina Faso / written and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo ; director of photography, Luc Drion ; editor, Julia Gregory (11 min.) -- United Kingdom / directed by Ken Loach ; written by Paul Laverty, Ken Loach, Vladimir Vega ; directors of photography, Nigel Willoughby, Peter Hellmich, Jorge Müller Silva ; editor, Jonathan Morris (11 min.) -- Mexico / written and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu ; editors, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Robert Duffy, Kim Bica (11 min.) -- Israel / directed by Amos Gitaï ; written by Amos Gitaï, Marie José Sanselme ; director of photography, Yoav Kosh ; editor, Kobi Netanel (11 min.) -- India / a film by Mira Nair ; written by Sabrina Dhawan ; director of photography, Declan Quinn ; editor, Allyson C. Johnson (11 min.) -- United States of America / written and directed by Sean Penn ; director of photography, Samuel Bayer ; editor, Jay Cassidy (11 min.) -- Japan / directed by Shohei Imamura ; written by Daisuke Tengan ; directors of photography, Masakazu Oka, Toshihiro Seino ; editor, Hajime Okayasu (11 min.).
Summary:
11 directors from different countries and cultures. 11 visions of the tragic events that occurred in New York City on September 11th 2001. 11 points of view committing their subjective conscience. Complete freedom of expression. Reflecting on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame each. In subject matter, they range from the very personal, to an oscillation between didacticism and relativism, to moments of pure cinema.
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