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.

Comedy Drama

Pegah Ahangarani

Leonid Alexeenko

((segment "Irtebak"))

Taraneh Alidoosti

(Self)

Dàvi Alvarado

(Boy (segment "Anna"))

Vishka Asayesh

George Babluani

(The thief (segment "Recrudescence"))

Cindy Beckett

(Supporting)

Caju

(Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes"))

Castanha

(Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes"))

Carl-Erik Calamnius

(Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie"))

Josh Brolin

((segment "World cinema"))

Luisa Williams

(Anna (segment "Anna"))

Michel Piccoli

(Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique"))

João Bénard da Costa

(Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique"))

Antoine Chappey

(Khrouchtchev's secretary (segment "Rencontre unique"))

Farini Cheung Yui-ling

(The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To ..."))

Casper Christensen

((segment "The Last Dating Show"))

David Cronenberg

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

Audrey Dana

(Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard"))

Émilie Dequenne

(The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité"))

Lionel Dray

(The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence"))

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

(The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique"))

Yosra El Lozy

(The girl (segment "47 Ans Après"))

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

(The young woman (segment "Recrudescence"))

Sara Forestier

(The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique"))

Jacques Frantz

(The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations"))

Grant Heslov

((segment "World cinema"))

Frank Hvam

((segment "The Last Dating Show"))

Kristian Ibler

((segment "The Last Dating Show"))

Karim Kassem

(Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après"))

Takeshi Kitano

(The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique"))

Joachim Knop

((segment "The Last Dating Show"))

Édith Le Merdy

(Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique"))

Michael Lonsdale

(The old blind man (segment "Le Don"))

Li Man

(The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film"))

Lü Yulai

(The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film"))

Sara-Marie Maltha

((segment "The Last Dating Show"))

Jeanne Moreau

(The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes"))

Nanni Moretti

(Nanni Moretti (segment "Diario di uno spettatore"))

Denis Podalydès

(The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard"))

Brooke Smith

((segment "World cinema"))

Yola Sanko

(Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir"))

Jérémie Segard

(The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité"))

Joe Siffleet

(Son (segment "Happy Ending"))

Zinedine Soualem

(Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard"))

Elia Suleiman

(The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak"))

Hedie Tehrani

Lars von Trier

(The filmmaker (segment "Occupations"))

Michel Vuillermoz

(The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard"))

Bradley Walsh

(Father (segment "Happy Ending"))

Isabelle Adjani

(Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage))

Anouk Aimée

((segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage))

Maury Chaykin

((segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage))

Jean Cocteau

(Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage))

Willem Dafoe

((segment "Occupations") (archive footage))

Bryce Dallas Howard

((segment "Occupations") (archive footage))

Anna Karina

((segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage))

Kim Novak

(Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage))

Shu Qi

(Pregnant Woman)

Golshifteh Farahani

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

Lee Kang-sheng

((segment: It’s A Dream))

Hamide Kheyrabadi

((segment: Where Is My Romeo?))

Duarte d'Almeida

(Pope John XXIII (segment: Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting)))

Fan Wing

(The Woman ( segment: I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You))

Michael Cimino

(Miguel Cimino (segment: no translation needed))

Clayton Jacobson

(Projectionist (segment: The Lady Bug))

Geneviève Lemon

(Bug (segment: The Lady Bug))

Gina Clayton

(Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…))

Jesse Collins

(Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…))

Juliana Muñoz

(Cuban Singer (segment: No Translation Needed))

Yves Corbet