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  • Cannes Film Festival
  • FR

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.

May 17, 2007

A father (Bradley Walsh) and son argue about the screenings at a multiplex, ultimately deciding to go watch football instead.

Factory workers on lunch break sit down to enjoy a Lumiére silent film of workers on lunch break.

May 20, 2007

A Texas cowboy goes to a movie-theater where he can't decide what non-American movie to watch and asks a ticket seller to suggest him a decent one.

May 17, 2007

A blind man (Michael Lonsdale) tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village.

May 19, 2007

A young projectionist falls in love with a girl in a film

A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev (Michel Piccoli) and Pope John XXIII (Duarte d'Almeida) is screened.

A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member

May 17, 2007

Von Trier plays himself, berating and violently hammering a loudmouthed businessman (Jacques Frantz) to death during the premiere of Manderlay.

May 17, 2007

Various Iranian women, including Golshifteh Farahani, Hamideh Kheirabadi, and Pegah Ahangarani, watch Romeo and Juliet and cry. This short is similar to Kiarostami's 2008 film Shirin.

An aged cinema owner (Ela Sanko) attempts to watch 8½, while sex-crazed youths make out behind her.

Moretti's contribution to "Chacun son cinema"

A woman confesses her love to a fellow filmgoer who doesn’t reciprocate.

May 19, 2007

Iñárritu's contribution to "Chacun son cinema"

May 15, 2007

A man (Frank Hvam) translating a Danish movie for his non-fluent date (Anne-Marie Curry) runs afoul of aggressive audience members.

A thief with an ambiguous relationship to a young woman (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) steals her purse during a screening.

A young man eating fruit (Fan Chih Wei) thinks of his lover.

A family in 1940s Taiwan goes to see a film in a suddenly abandoned or decrepit theatre

A young boy is enchanted by the arrival of a travelling movie show in his village.

A memoir of how the movie Top Hat impacted the director's family throughout the years.

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