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To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

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To Each His Own Cinema

"A declaration of love on the big screen."

2007

1h 40m

6.5(155 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Overview

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

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Elzévir Films

StudioCanal

ARTE

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)

Taraneh Alidoosti

Taraneh Alidoosti

Self

Pegah Ahangarani

Pegah Ahangarani

Vishka Asayesh

Vishka Asayesh

David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg

The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")

Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin

(segment "World cinema")

Giorgi Babluani

Giorgi Babluani

The thief (segment "Recrudescence")

Leonid Alexeenko

(segment "Irtebak")

Dàvi Alvarado

Boy (segment "Anna")

Cindy Beckett

Supporting

Creative team

Directed by: Theo Angelopoulos
Olivier Assayas
Written by: Takeshi Kitano
Ethan Coen
Produced by: Jacky Pang
Takeshi Kitano

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