September 11

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.

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  Ken Loach
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  Idrissa Ouedraogo
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  Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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  Samira Makhmalbaf
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  Alejandro González Iñárritu
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  Amos Gitai
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  Shōhei Imamura
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  Sean Penn

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  Ernest Borgnine
  Old Man (segment "USA")
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  Maryam Karimi
  Teacher (segment "Iran")
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  Emmanuelle Laborit
  She (segment "France")
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  Jérôme Horry
  Him (segment "France")
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  Keren Mor
  Journalist (segment "Israel")
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  Tomer Russo
  Paramedic (segment "Israel")
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  Tanvi Azmi
  Talat Hamdani (segment "India")
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  Kapil Bawa
  Salim Hamdani (segment "India")
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  Tomorowo Taguchi
  Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
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  Kumiko Aso
  Sae Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
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  Akira Emoto
  Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
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  Mitsuko Baisho
  Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
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  Ken Ogata
  Villager (segment "Japan")
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  Hassan Rezai
  Child (segment "Iran")
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  Nour El-Sherif
  Youssef Chahine (segment "Egypt")
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  Sanaa Younes
  Mother (segment "Egypt")
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  Maher Essam
  Palestinian (segment "Egypt")
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  Ahmed Fouad Selim
  Father (segment "Egypt")
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  Agelem Habibi
  Child (segment "Iran")
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  Ahmed Haroun
  G'I (segment "Egypt")