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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A young man eating fruit (Fan Chih Wei) thinks of his lover. Alphaville (1965) off screen.

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

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

An older gentleman deals with an incompetent projectionist

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

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

A young Chahine (Karim Kassem) and his lead actress (Yosra El Lozy) commiserate over the critical failure of their movie at Cannes.

The inhabitants of a Congo village watch and discuss Black Hawk Down.

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

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

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

Small children rig up a projector to watch a Charlie Chaplin film, only to be scared off by a nosy adult.

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