September 11

Eleven directors from 11 countries each contribute an 11-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 has 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. And so on. The tone varies, as do the locales. Most stories are about others coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.

Direction

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Youssef Chahine

Amos Gitai

Shōhei Imamura

Sean Penn

Claude Lelouch

Ken Loach

Samira Makhmalbaf

Mira Nair

Idrissa Ouedraogo

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Danis Tanovic

Screenplay

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Alain Brigand

Youssef Chahine

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Sabrina Dhawan

Amos Gitai

Sean Penn

Alejandro G. Iñárritu