8 (2008)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 23, 2008Release Date

Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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')

Harry Greenwood
Simon (segment 'The Water Diary')

Miranda Jakich
Mrs. Miles (segment 'The Water Diary')

Justine Clarke
Mother (segment 'The Water Diary')

Russell Dykstra
Father (segment 'The Water Diary')

Ian Abdulla
Lunch Guest (segment 'The Water Diary')

Di Adams
Lunch Guest (segment 'The Water Diary')

Chris Haywood
Lunch Guest (segment 'The Water Diary')

Loydi Hucshva Haynas
Panshin Beka (segment 'The story of Panshin Beka')

Olivia Aravelo Lomos
Nonna (segment 'The story of Panshin Beka')

Denis Rafael Barbaran
Marito (segment 'The story of Panshin Beka')

Auristela Brito Valles
Panshin Beka's friend (segment 'The story of Panshin Beka')

Pendo Duku
(segment 'Person to Person')

Tsehaie Kidane
(segment 'Person to Person') (as Tsehaie Abraham Kidane)

Megan Gay
Ronda (segment 'Person to Person')

Bhasker Patel
(segment 'Person to Person')

Robert Seeliger
(segment 'Person to Person')

Ian T. Dickinson
Frank (segment 'Person to Person')

Tomas Spencer
Seymour (segment 'Person to Person')

Rain Lee Choi-Wah
Cinematographer

Gerhard Gutberlet
(segment 'Person to Person')

Aminata M. Kalokoh
(segment 'Person to Person')

Mena Z. Kalokoh
(segment 'Person to Person')

Augusto Aguilera
Lender (segment 'Person to Person')

Aba Arthur
African Borrower (segment 'Person to Person')

Bob Geldof
Himself

Melissa Butts
Lender

Cindy Tolan
CastingDirector

Youssou N'Dour
Himself

Sebastian Soukup
ProductionDesigner

Campino
Himself

Adam Stockhausen
ProductionDesigner

Lavetta Cannon
African Borrower (segment 'Person to Person')

Luis Fernandez-Gil
Guatemalan Borrower (segment 'Person to Person')

Herbert Grönemeyer
Himself

Yolanda Hester
African Borrower (segment 'Person to Person')

Michael Lehr
Lender (segment 'Person to Person')

Angela Malhotra
Borrower - East Indian (segment 'Person to Person')

Marta Cross
Costa Rican Borrower (segment 'Person to Person') (as Marta McGonagle)

Vanessa Paul
The Lender (segment 'Person to Person')

Shai Fali
Borrower- East Indian (segment 'Person to Person') (as Shaifali Ratti)

Kaius Harrison
Lender (segment 'Person to Person') (as Kharrison Sweeney)

Rodney Charles
Lender

Constance Ejuma
African Borrower (segment 'Person to Person')

Susanne Herrmann
(segment 'Person to Person')

Grace Matias
Lawyer

Pendo Nyinondi
African Borrower 'Person to Person' (as Pendo)

Jessica Shelby
(segment 'Person to Person')

Jennifer Popagain
Panamanian Borrower (segment 'Person to Person')

Geneviève Lemon
Pam Garner (segment 'The Water Diary')

Abderrahmane Sissako
Director / Writer

Gael García Bernal
Director / Writer / Producer

Gaspar Noé
Director / Writer / Director of Photography / Editor

Gus Van Sant
Director / Editor

Jan Kounen
Director / Writer

Jane Campion
Director / Writer

Mira Nair
Director / Producer

Wim Wenders
Director / Writer

Régine Abadia
Writer

Erin Dignam
Writer

Suketu Mehta
Writer

Rashida Mustafa
Writer

Greig Fraser
Director of Photography

Dominique Gentil
Director of Photography

Rain Li
Director of Photography

Declan Quinn
Director of Photography

David Ungaro
Director of Photography

Ami Boghani
Producer

Franck-Nicolas Chelle
Producer

David Allen Cress
Producer

Pablo Cruz
Producer

Christopher Gill
Producer

Lissandra Haulica
Producer / Supervising Producer

Anadil Hossain
Executive Producer

Finni Johannsson
Producer

Marc Joory
Producer

Neil Kopp
Producer

Michel Merkt
Producer

Marc Obéron
Producer

Lise Paillet
Producer

Jean-Marc Sabet
Producer

Philipp G. Steffens
Producer

Belinda Mravicic
Associate Producer

Mark Bradshaw
Original Music Composer

Mychael Danna
Original Music Composer
Media.





Details.
Release DateOctober 23, 2008
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Filming LocationsIceland · New York City · San Francisco, United States · Ethiopia
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
woman director
anthology
Wiki.
8 is an anthology film consisting of eight short films centred on the eight Millennium Development Goals.
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