The read
A Balasaur Score of 68 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 77%, Metacritic 61/100.
Synopsis
Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what's happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they've spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son's death. Tones vary, as do the locales. Most concern coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.
Ratings
126 audience votes
Key crew
- Ken LoachDirector
- Idrissa OuedraogoDirector
- Samira MakhmalbafDirector
- Alejandro G. IñárrituDirector
- Amos GitaiDirector
- Shōhei ImamuraDirector
- Sean PennDirector
- Mira NairDirector
- Danis TanovićDirector
- Youssef ChahineWriter
- Youssef ChahineDirector
- Manu DibangoOriginal Music Composer
- Vladimir VegaOriginal Music Composer
- Claude LelouchDirector
- Gustavo SantaolallaOriginal Music Composer
- Duško ŠegvićOriginal Music Composer
- Osvaldo GolijovOriginal Music Composer
- Michael BrookOriginal Music Composer
- Mohammad Reza DarvishiOriginal Music Composer
- Taro IwashiroOriginal Music Composer
- Salif KeitaOriginal Music Composer
- Heitor PereiraOriginal Music Composer
- Samira MakhmalbafWriter
- Alejandro G. IñárrituWriter
- Claude LelouchWriter
- Idrissa OuedraogoWriter
- Marie-Jose SanselmeWriter
- Sean PennWriter
- Daisuke TenganWriter
- Ken LoachWriter
- Amos GitaiWriter
- Pierre UytterhoevenWriter
- Vladimir VegaWriter
- Danis TanovićWriter
- Paul LavertyWriter
- Sabrina DhawanWriter
Cast
- Ernest BorgnineOld Man (segment "USA")
- Maryam KarimiTeacher (segment "Iran")
- Emmanuelle LaboritShe (segment "France")
- Jérôme HorryHim (segment "France")
- Keren MorJournalist (segment "Israel")
- Tomer RussoParamedic (segment "Israel")
- Tanvi AzmiTalat Hamdani (segment "India")
- Kapil BawaSalim Hamdani (segment "India")
- Tomorowo TaguchiYukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- Kumiko AsoSae Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- Akira EmotoSakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- Mitsuko BaishoKayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
