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.

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Cast

Ernest Borgnine

Old Man (segment "USA")

Emmanuelle Laborit

She (segment "France")

Keren Mor

Journalist (segment "Israel")

Tanvi Azmi

Talat Hamdani (segment "India")

Kapil Bawa

Salim Hamdani (segment "India")

Tomorowo Taguchi

Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

Kumiko Aso

Sae Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

Akira Emoto

Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

Mitsuko Baisho

Kayo Furuhashi (segment "Japan")

Ken Ogata

Villager (segment "Japan")

Nour El-Sherif

Youssef Chahine (segment "Egypt")

Sanaa Younes

Mother (segment "Egypt")