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To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

A declaration of love on the big screen

20076.51h 40m

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.

Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Written by Takeshi Kitano, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Produced by Jacky Pang, Takeshi Kitano, Aki Kaurismäki
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Top Cast

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")

George Babluani

George Babluani

The thief (segment "Recrudescence")

L

Leonid Alexeenko

(segment "Irtebak")

D

Dàvi Alvarado

Boy (segment "Anna")

C

Cindy Beckett

Supporting

Themes & Keywords

anthologywoman director

About To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema is a comedy, drama film released in 2007 exploring themes of anthology, woman director. Directed by Theo Angelopoulos, it stars Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani. 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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