11'09"01 - SEPTEMBER 11

Year: 2002
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, JerOme Horry, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Seif Eldine, Dzana Pinjo, Aleksandar Seksan, Tatjana Sojic, Lionel Zizreel Guire, Rene Aime Bassinga, Lionel Gaël Folikoue, Rodrigue Andre Idani, Alex Martial Traore, Vladimir Vega, Keren Mor, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Tanvi Azmi, Kapil Bawa, Taleb Adlah, Ernest Borgnine, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kumiko Aso, Akira Emoto, Mitsuko Baisho, Tetsuro Tamba, Ken Ogata, Salvador Allende, Ren Aim Bassinga, George W Bush, Ahmed Seif Eldine, Rodrigue Andr Idani, Henry Kissinger, Augusto Pinochet
Directors: Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Shohei Imamura, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic
Countries: UK / France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 135 mins
UK Certificate: 12A contains images of suicide and references to torture
UK Release Date: 27 December 2002

Synopsis

French television director Alain Brigand (Artistic Producer) had the idea for the project the day after the attacks and the film is a remarkable and thought provoking collaboration, pooling the talents of 11 world renowned filmmakers from 11 countries.

11'09"01 - 11 SEPTEMBER was premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2002, where Ken Loach's episode won the Fipresci Critics' prize for outstanding short film. Cinema's first direct response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001 is a measured, wide-ranging and ultimately humanistic reflection on the events of that day and their widely different worldwide resonance.

Given complete freedom of expression and linked only by theme and a running time of 11 minutes and 9 seconds each, the resulting collection is an extraordinary mix of ideas and genres, imbued by the personal styles and preoccupation of the filmmakers, expressing 11 different perspectives of the events and their aftermath.