TO commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, a French studio is unveiling an unusual omnibus movie called 11’09”01 September 11.11’09”01 is a compilation of short films with 9.11 themes by famous directors from around the globe. Each segmant lasts 11 minutes, nine seconds.The 11 directors involved in the project are from the U.S.A., Mexico, England, Japan, Egypt, France, Bolivia, India, Israel, Iran and West Africa.The movie’s first segment, from Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf, begins with Iranian schoolchildren saying, “The United States wants to bomb us, so we must built shelters.” Then the teacher encourages the pupils to commemorate the 9.11 victims with a minute of silence. The British segment of the omnibus film, directed by left-wing filmmaker Ken Loach, focuses on another Sept. 11 tragedy that took place in Chile in 1973.India’s Mira Nair focuses on the true story of a Pakistani-American who died helping New York fire fighters at the World Trade Center. His unexplained disappearance on the date of the attack led to police and media suspicions of his possible association with terrorists, his mother says in the segment. French press said that this project was initated by producer Alain Brigand, who convinced recently ousted Vivendi Chairman-CEO Jean-Marie Messier to back the movie. (Zhong Li)