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To Each His Own Cinema(2007)
Status: Released
Date: 2007-10-31
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149 Votes
Time: 1h 40m
A declaration of love on the big screen
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.
Languages: Danish, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, Mandarin.
Countries:
France
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Movie: To Each His Own Cinema
Top 10 Billed Cast
Golshifteh Farahani
Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
ترانه علیدوستی
Self
Pegah Ahangarani
ویشکا آسایش
David Cronenberg
The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")
Josh Brolin
(segment "World cinema")
George Babluani
The thief (segment "Recrudescence")
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