To Each His Own Cinema

Oct 31, 2007

1h 40m

★ 6.5

A declaration of love on the big screen

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Elzévir Films

StudioCanal

ARTE

To Each His Own Cinema Trailers

Cast

Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)

Golshifteh Farahani

Self

Taraneh Alidoosti

Pegah Ahangarani

Vishka Asayesh

The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")

David Cronenberg

(segment "World cinema")

Josh Brolin

The thief (segment "Recrudescence")

George Babluani

(segment "Irtebak")

Leonid Alexeenko

Boy (segment "Anna")

Dàvi Alvarado

Supporting

Cindy Beckett

Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")

Caju

Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")

Castanha

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.

7.1

The Mad Women's Ball

Sep 12, 2021

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.

6.1

Onegin

Dec 22, 1999

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

6.9

Civil Brand

Aug 29, 2003

Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution.

6.0

Cold Souls

Aug 7, 2009

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.

6.3

Late Bloomers

Oct 5, 2006

Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.

5.1

1 Day

Oct 21, 2009

This searing British thriller follows Flash (Dylan Duffus), who's safeguarding his buddy Angel's (Yohance Watson) cash until his release from prison. Now Angel is out -- and Flash is 100 pounds short. He turns to a lowlife named Evil (Tobias Duncan) for help, the first in a series of mistakes. Now, Flash has more than just Angel hunting him down. Directed by Penny Woolcock (Mischief Night), the film co-stars Ohran Whyte and Chris Wilson

5.1

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

Jun 19, 2006

The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.

6.4

Picture Bride

May 5, 1995

Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.

6.1

Real Women Have Curves

Oct 18, 2002

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.

6.4

The Late Shift

Feb 24, 1996

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."

4.3

Tart

Apr 23, 2001

A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

6.5

Lost in Beijing

Sep 26, 2007

A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.

4.6

Phat Girlz

Apr 7, 2006

Two large women struggle to find love and acceptance in a culture where thin is in. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they meet the men of their dreams in completely unexpected ways.

5.7

DeGenerazione

Jul 15, 1994

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.

6.1

A Cookie Cutter Christmas

Nov 9, 2014

Two longtime rivals and elementary school teachers duke it out during the holidays in a Christmas cookie bake-off, but their real feud ignites over a shared interest in a handsome single dad. With both determined to win the prize and the romance, their competitiveness could jeopardize what matters most this Christmas season.

6.8

All Cats Are Grey

Oct 23, 2014

Paul is a chubby kind-‐hearted amateur detective. Dorothy is an intense upper class teenager. Paul is into quoting Sherlock Holmes and watching Derrick. Dorothy is into punk clothing and hating her mother. Paul is forty three, Dorothy is sixteen, and the only thing that links them is Paul’s knowledge that he is Dorothy’s biological father… over time, this has grown into a one way relationship with Paul spying on Dorothy as she grew up, always from a safe distance…They would never have met if Dorothy hadn’t heard of Paul’s amateur detective skills. She wants to use him to find her father…

4.0

Being 14

Feb 25, 2015

The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.

6.9

The Juniper Tree

Apr 10, 1990

Margit and her older sister Katla flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter with Johan and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery.