8 (2008)
What do you think you are willing to do?
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
- Date of release
- 2008-10-23
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Jan Kounen, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gael García Bernal, Gaspar Noé, Mira Nair, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Jane Campion
Casting
- Nigist Anteneh — Tiya (segment "Tiya's Dream")
- Tefera Gizaw — Tiya's father (segment "Tiya's Dream")
- Fekadu Kebede — Teacher (segment "Tiya's Dream")
- Ingvar E. Sigurðsson — Father (segment "The Letter")
- Hringur Ingvarsson — Son (segment "The Letter")
- Dieudonné Ilboudo — Man (segment "SIDA")
- Konkona Sen Sharma — Zeinab (segment "How can it be ?")
- Ranvir Shorey — Arif (segment "How can it be ?")
- Birsa Chatterjee — Son (segment "How can it be?")
- Alice Englert — Ziggy (segment "The Water Diary")
- Tintin Marova Kelly — Sam (segment "The Water Diary")
- Isidore Tillers — Felicity Miles (segment "The Water Diary")
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: San Francisco, Iceland, New York City, and Ethiopia
8 is an anthology film consisting of eight short films centred on the eight Millennium Development Goals.
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