To Each His Own Cinema
“A declaration of love on the big screen.”
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.
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Cast
72 people
Golshifteh Farahani
Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
Known for
Invasion
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Wing Fan
Taraneh Alidoosti
Self
Known for
About Elly
The Salesman
Pegah Ahangarani
Also in
The Girl in the Sneakers
Trapped
Vishka Asayesh
Also in
No Men Allowed
The Mokhtar Narrative
David Cronenberg
The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")
Known for
Alias Grace
The Fly
Josh Brolin
(segment "World cinema")
Known for
Deadpool 2
Avengers: Infinity War
Giorgi Babluani
The thief (segment "Recrudescence")
Known for
13 Tzameti
Leonid Alexeenko
(segment "Irtebak")
Also in
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Dàvi Alvarado
Boy (segment "Anna")
No other roles listed
Cindy Beckett
Supporting
No other roles listed
Caju
Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Also in
Moro no Brasil
Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção
Lars von Trier Director · Alejandro G. Iñárritu Director David Cronenberg Director
Director
Lars von Trier
Director Writer
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
David Cronenberg
Director Writer
Zhang Yimou
Director Writer
Joel Coen
Director
Ethan Coen
Director
Wim Wenders
Director Screenplay Editor
Takeshi Kitano
Director
Roman Polanski
Director
Gus Van Sant
Director
David Lynch
Director
Walter Salles
Director
Theo Angelopoulos
Director
Jane Campion
Director
Michael Cimino
Director
Wong Kar-wai
Director
Ken Loach
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Director
Claude Lelouch
Director
Bille August
Director
Youssef Chahine
Director
Amos Gitai
Director
Chen Kaige
Director
Olivier Assayas
Director
Luc Dardenne
Director
Atom Egoyan
Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Director
Raymond Depardon
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Director
Nanni Moretti
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Director
Manoel de Oliveira
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Director
Raúl Ruiz
Director
Elia Suleiman
Composer
Howard Shore
Composer
Mychael Danna
Composer
Eleni Karaindrou
Cinematographer
Paweł Edelman
Cinematographer
Emmanuel Lubezki
Cinematographer
Eric Alan Edwards
Editor
Stephen Mirrione
Editor
François Gédigier
Production designer
Norihiro Isoda
Costume designer
Fabio Perrone
Costume designer
Semira Suspene
First release May 19, 2007 · Produced in France, Japan · Languages Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish
Production
Elzévir Films
Production
StudioCanal
Production
ARTE
Production
Office Kitano
Production
Cannes Film Festival
Production
France · Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
Chinese · Danish · English · Finnish · French · Hebrew · Italian · Japanese · Portuguese · Russian · Spanish · Yiddish
Release dates
France · May 19, 2007
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
China
April 16, 2026 · Premiere · Beijing International Film Festival
Germany
May 15, 2008 · TV
Italy
October 20, 2007 · Premiere · Rome Film Festival
South Korea
May 15, 2008 · Theatrical
Spain
October 31, 2007 · Theatrical
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