Drama
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.
Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Amos Gitai, Shōhei Imamura
64
User score
125 votes
Status
Released
Released
September 4, 2002
Runtime
2h 14m
Language
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, Spanish
Top cast
Ernest Borgnine
Old Man (segment "USA")
Maryam Karimi
Teacher (segment "Iran")
Emmanuelle Laborit
She (segment "France")
Jérôme Horry
Him (segment "France")
Keren Mor
Journalist (segment "Israel")
Tomer Russo
Paramedic (segment "Israel")
Tanvi Azmi
Talat Hamdani (segment "India")
Kapil Bawa
Salim Hamdani (segment "India")
Tomorowo Taguchi
Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Kumiko Aso
Sae Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Akira Emoto
Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Mitsuko Baisho
Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Ken Ogata
Villager (segment "Japan")
Hassan Rezai
Child (segment "Iran")
Nour El-Sherif
Youssef Chahine (segment "Egypt")
Sanaa Younes
Mother (segment "Egypt")
Maher Essam
Palestinian (segment "Egypt")
Ahmed Fouad Selim
Father (segment "Egypt")
Agelem Habibi
Child (segment "Iran")
Ahmed Haroun
G'I (segment "Egypt")
