September 11 Summary
Director: Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shohei Imamura, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Samira Makhmalbaf, Danis Tanovic, Alejandro González Iñárritu
Genres: Drama, Avant-garde / Experimental
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In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were given was that no one film could exceed 11 minutes, nine seconds, and one frame. The resulting omnibus film, 11'09"01, showed at festivals around the world the following year and garnered a theatrical release in 2003. Each filmmaker's entry takes a different approach: French director Claude_Lelouch tells the tale of a World Trade Center tour guide who is on the verge of a breakup with his deaf girlfriend when the terrorist attacks hit; similarly, Hollywood actor-director Sean_Penn chronicles the lonely existence of an old man living not far from the Twin Towers. Egyptian director Youssef_Chahine and British social realist filmmaker Ken_Loach created the most controversy with their entries, which, respectively, address the points-of-view of a suicide bomber and of a Chilean who recalls the brutal coup funded by the United States in his country on September 11, 1973. Alejandro Gonz
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