At the outset, there was this challenge: celebrate the anniversary of the Festival, without turning a nostalgic eye back over the past 60 years, so as to reaffirm our admiration and testify our confidence in the great filmmakers of the world. Filmmakers who have never creased to astonish and constantly reinvent the cinema.
We have brought together 35 directors, from 5 different continents and 25 countries, all universally recognised. They have directed, in just 3 minutes each, their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theatre, that magical venue of communion par excellence of film lovers the world over.
The very nature of this project sparked them into being all the more surprising, funny, tender or sarcastic, as well as moving and provocative. This melting-pot of cultures, origins and talents inspired us to bestow on this feature film as its title, To Each His Own Cinema: 33 individual works for a collective celebration.
The novelty of its form derives from its extreme division, thereby inviting audiences to a constant change of scene and an ever delicious savour of lightness. This innovative writing does not reflect some purely mechanical chain of motion-picture theatres, instead it creates a series of improbable encounters in cinemas whose amazing diversity is sure to surprise one and all. For it is here that one finds individualities who express their aesthetic views, poets who capture a parcel of the world and transfigure it each in their own way.

Gilles Jacob


TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA

A film conceived and produced by Gilles Jacob, and directed by:


Theo ANGELOPOULOS - Three minutes
Olivier ASSAYAS - Upsurge
Bille AUGUST - The Last Dating Show
Jane CAMPION - The Lady Bug
Youssef CHAHINE - 47 Years Later
CHEN Kaige - Zhanxiou Village
Michael CIMINO - No Translation Needed
Ethan & Joel COEN - World Cinema
David CRONENBERG - At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE - Darkness
Manoel DE OLIVEIRA - Sole Meeting
Raymond DEPARDON - Open-Air Cinema
Atom EGOYAN - Artaud Double Bill
Amos GITAI - Le Dibbouk de Haifa
Hsiao-hsien HOU - The Electric Princess Picture House
Alejandro González IÑARRITU - Anna
Aki KAURISMÄKI - The Foundry
Abbas KIAROSTAMI - Where is my Romeo?
Takeshi KITANO - One Fine Day
Andrei KONCHALOVSKY - In the Dark
Claude LELOUCH - The Cinema Around the Corner
Ken LOACH - Happy Ending
David LYNCH - Absurda
Nanni MORETTI- Diary of a Movie-Goer
Roman POLANSKI - Cinéma érotique
Raúl RUIZ - The Gift
Walter SALLES - 5.557 Miles From Cannes
Elia SULEIMAN - Awkward
TSAI Ming-Liang - It's a Dream
Gus VAN SANT - First Kiss
Lars VON TRIER - Occupations
Wim WENDERS - War in Peace
WONG Kar Wai - I Travelled 9000 km to Give it to You
ZHANG Yimou - Movie Night


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