• 11-09-01: September 11 (2002)

    Filmmakers from all over the world collaborate in a film that offers differing perspectives on the September 11 terrorist attacks that targeted New York City and the nation's capital in 2001. Sean Penn, Ken Loach, Mira Nair and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu are among the 11 directors who contributed to the project, and their short films -- each of which are 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame of film in length -- reflect on cultural differences, love and personal tragedy.

11-09-01: September 11
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Release Date: 2002

Not Yet Rated |2 hr 15 min

Plot Summary

Filmmakers from all over the world collaborate in a film that offers differing perspectives on the September 11 terrorist attacks that targeted New York City and the nation's capital in 2001. Sean Penn, Ken Loach, Mira Nair and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu are among the 11 directors who contributed to the project, and their short films -- each of which are 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame of film in length -- reflect on cultural differences, love and personal tragedy.

Cast: Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, Jerome Horry, Ahmed Seif Eldine, Dzana Pinjo, Aleksandar Seksan, Tatjana Sojic, Lionel Zizreel Guire

Director: Youssef Chahine , Amos Gitai , Alejandro González Iñárritu , Shôhei Imamura , Claude Lelouch , Ken Loach , Samira Makhmalbaf , Mira Nair

Genres: Drama

Keywords: 2000s , Transformation , Wife , Dark , Sacrifice , 1970s , Love ,

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Ratings & Reviews

  • 75
    David SterrittChristian Science Monitor

    They vary enormously in style, quality, and ideas, but the best of them -- by Gitai, Chahine, and Iñárritu, among others -- pack an enormous emotional and intellectual punch. show more

  • 88
    Michael WilmingtonChicago Tribune

    An often brilliant, always revelatory, deeply interesting omnibus film. show more

  • 75
    Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times

    9/11 was a savage and heartless crime, and after the symbolism and the history and the imagery and the analysis, that is a point that must be made. show more

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