11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)

Directors:

Youssef Chahine
Amos Gitai

Writers:

Youssef Chahine (segment)
Sabrina Dhawan (segment)

Release Date:

11 September 2002 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

11 directors, 11 stories, 1 film.

Plot:

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

Plot Keywords:

Episodic | September 11 2001 | World Trade Center New York | Real Life Tragedy | Real Life

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Maryam Karimi	...	(segment Iran)
Emmanuelle Laborit	...	(segment France)
Jérôme Horry	...	(segment France)
Nour El-Sherif	...	(segment Egypt)
Ahmed Haroun	...	(segment Egypt)
Dzana Pinjo	...	(segment Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Aleksandar Seksan	...	(segment Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Tatjana Sojic	...	(segment Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Lionel Zizréel Guire	...	(segment Burkina-Faso)
René Aimé Bassinga	...	(segment Burkina-Faso)
Lionel Gaël Folikoue	...	(segment Burkina-Faso)
Rodrigue André Idani	...	(segment Burkina-Faso)
Alex Martial Traoré	...	(segment Burkina-Faso)
Vladimir Vega	...	(segment United Kingdom)
Keren Mor	...	(segment Israel)

Also Known As:

11 septembre 2001 (Iran: Farsi title)
11'09''01 - September 11 (France)
11'09''01: Onze minutes, neuf secondes, un cadre (France)
Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image: September 11 (International: English title)
September 11 (USA)

Runtime:

134 min

Country:

UK | France | Egypt | Japan | Mexico | USA | Iran

Language:

Spanish | English | French | Arabic | Hebrew | Persian | French Sign Language

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Hong Kong:IIA | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:12A (original rating) | UK:12 (video rating) (2003) | USA:Unrated

Company:

CIH Shorts

Trivia:

In Mira Nair's segment, a clip of Monsoon Wedding (2001), Nair's previous film, is shown on television.

Movie Connections:

References "Star Trek" (1966)

A well-inspired collection of shorts.

As you may know, the subject here was to ask eleven directors from all over the world to make each a short movie of 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one frame. We have here : - Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran) : what afghan refugee kids can understand to the towers collapsing ? Well, nothing. A great lesson. - Claude Lelouch (France) : a weak plot with a great cinematography... Just imagine a deaf woman living by the WTC who sees without understanding it that her dog barks... Well just see it. - Youssef Chahine (Egypt) : the greatest oriental movie maker has compassion... For everyone : for an us soldier who died ten years ago, for the people in the Wtc but also for a palestinian suicide-terrorist. Maybe the less tender movie towards the us. - Danis Tanovic (bosnia hrzgovia) : good images, makes us travel, for sure... Not a very good plot. Idrissa Oudraogo (Burkina Faso) : from one of the poorest country in the world, a tender and funny story about five boys who want to capture Osama Bin Laden... And they could have done it but nobody believes them when they tell they know where he is. Ken Loach (uk) : September 11, 1973, The Chile entered in a twenty-years long bloody dictature. Thousands of death, tortures : all that was offered to Chile by Henry Kissinger and the CIA, and knowing this changes very much your point of view ! I guess that is because of that particular short that no american movie distribution company accepted to release the movie in us theaters ! Loach forgot to point that 1973 is also the year when the WTC was built ! - Alejandro Gonzalez inarritu (Mexico) : impressing images that we all know too well, and a lot of black screens. I didn't get this one very much, it is more an artist video (to show in an exhibition) than a movie. - Amos Gitaï (Israël) : an absurd ballet of policemen, journalists, etc., around a burning car in Jerusalem. Very well done. - Mira Nair (India) : about the anti-islamic feeling that followed september the 11th. Very good actualy. - Sean Penn (us) : a funny little story that reminds us a fact usualy forgotten, the WTC did have a huge shadow, and some places now have a daylight they never had. - Shohei Imamura (Japan) : a different one. Here there is not even one word about the WTC, and the action takes place at the end of WWII. It has only one message : no war is holy. This short movie gives very deep feelings, but the director aparently would have done better with more than 11 minutes. --- so --- A great movie, a great attempt to take the world's temperature. I love it.