给你一个三分钟，你会拍出怎样的电影？
本片由35位知名导演，为庆祝戛纳电影节六十周年而拍摄的三分钟短片组成。细心的你会发现，在此短篇集中不仅有众多知名演员的参演，更有著名导演的客串演出。这短暂的三分钟光影，不仅浓缩了精妙的生活片段，更有每位导演对电影、对人生的深刻体悟。 或温情或冷峻或真实或迷幻，人生何止五味，《每个人都有他自己的电影》如是说，你的呢？

奥古斯都与路易斯·卢米埃兄弟，是现代电影之父，本片就是为了纪念他们而拍摄的，每位受到邀请的导演，都要回答三个问题：为什么你愿意参与拍摄这部影片；为什么你要拍摄电影；电影是否会消亡？每个导演还要用当初卢米埃兄弟制造的世界上最古老的摄影机拍摄一段52秒钟的短片，而且有三个规则：52秒；不能同步录音；不能重复拍三次以上。

11世纪末，以英、法、德等国组成的十字军发动了第三次东征，大肆侵略阿拉伯土地。埃及军民在萨拉丁苏丹（即国王）的亲自率领下，奋起反抗。在亚历山大港一战中，击退了十字军的进攻，给十字军以沉重打击。为了收复圣地耶路撒冷，萨拉丁积极准备，联合阿拉伯各国军队，共同对敌。在赫淀山战役中，萨拉丁派主将阿瓦姆夜袭敌营，捣毁敌军的蓄水罐，引敌下山，采用“火墙战术”，打得十字军落花流水。结果，狂妄自大的法军首领里诺被俘，并得到了应有的惩罚。
为了实现占有耶路撒冷的野心，法军首领里诺的妻子弗吉尼亚从欧洲请来以英王理查为首的各国援军。十字军凭借战略优势向阿克要塞进攻，由于阿克城总督利欲熏心，卖身投敌，阿拉伯军民虽经苦战，但阿克城最终失守。十字军占领了阿克城，继而又发动了对阿什克伦城的进攻，英王理查急于取胜，动用大型战车攻城。萨拉丁面对强敌，暂时弃城而走，诱敌于沼泽地带，变被动为主动，大量杀伤敌人有生力量。
英王理查在惨败之余，企图以暂时停战议和的方式来争取时间卷土重来。但法王菲力普、弗吉尼亚、康拉德伯爵等各怀野心，狼狈为奸，他们一面暗派使者告诉萨拉丁，愿以获得几个城市为条件，放弃进攻耶路撒冷；一方面却又极力怂恿英王立即进攻耶路撒冷。萨拉丁沉着应战，并派遣主将阿瓦姆去同大马士革人取得联系，引进大量液体燃烧剂，用以对付十字军的大型战车。为了争取和平、避免更多的流血牺牲，萨拉丁利用敌人内部矛盾，邀请英王理查朝拜圣地。一心想当耶路撒冷国王的阿塞尔公爵乘机暗箭射伤英王，并嫁祸于萨拉丁，妄图破坏和平。萨拉丁为了表明和谈诚意，只身一人化装潜入敌营为英王治伤，晓以大义。不料刚愎自用的英王理查在法王菲利普等人的挑唆下，为了所谓“圣战”荣誉，非但不听萨拉丁的忠告，反而一意孤行，执意要与萨拉丁决一死战。在阿拉伯军民痛击之下，英王理查一败涂地，终于不得不投降求和、撤军回国。
（作者为本片翻译之一。原文刊载于1980-8-16《解放日报》）

2001年9月11日，震惊世界且影响深远的“9·11事件”爆发。双子塔岿然垮塌，似乎预示着一个黑暗时代的到来。在此之后，法国Studio Canal电影公司迅速做出反应，邀请了11名享誉海内外的导演和演员分别执导了每部时长为11分钟09秒01帧的短片，最终汇集成这部思想独特、尖锐深刻的短片集。在他们的镜头中，有的饱受战争、饥馑、灾害的人们感同身受发起了悼念；有的则或戏谑或愤怒或尖锐批判着美国的霸权主义；有的以寓言的形式解析着“圣战”的含义；有的则俯身聚焦小人物的生活琐事与喜怒哀乐。那改变世界的瞬间，震撼着每一个人的心……
本片荣获2002年威尼斯电影节国际影评人费比西奖最佳短片奖（Ken Loach导演部分）以及联合国教科文组织大奖。

一九五八年的《开罗车站》（Cairo Station）是夏因其中一部早期经典，不过该片比时代先行，上映时被观众喝倒釆，同时也因对性及社会问题的描写而被禁足足有十二年。后来重见天日，广泛被推崇为最重要的阿拉伯电影之一。
夏因上阵自导自演，演活了一个卖报卫生的开罗小男人。化身成埃及版差利，闲时喜欢将杂质上的美女照片剪下来贴满他的车站小屋内，又爱上了在附近买柠檬水的惹火尤物。但通俗剧的形式，最终以小男人死于非命的反通俗剧结束，而他眼中的神圣不可侵犯的惹火尤物只不过是另一个男人的财物。
《开罗车站》被评为最先将新写实主义引进歌舞片充斥的埃及电影世界的作品。导演对埃及的性别政治以及不优良传统的关注和批判，已在此片尽露端倪。

在 12 世纪的西班牙，政府因政治对手的威胁而面临发生动荡的危险。一名哲学家和他深奥的学说让他所效力的哈里发陷入困境。

Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer, handles this neighborhood with an iron hand. Every single citizen fears and hates him. Only Nour, a young woman he lusts after, dares stand up to him. But Nour is secretly in love with Cherif, brilliant and uncorrupted deputy public prosecutor. Green with envy, Hatem comes between. He wants Nour for himself. He whipsaws her and turns her life into a nightmare. The story of a frustrated love like Choubra experiences some since the mists of time.

Cairo 1947: the cholera epidemic in full swing. The beautiful Lavandiere Saddika lives with her paralyzed husband and her little son Hassan in a basement. She dreams of Prince Charming and assiduously frequented the cinemas. One day Hassan Okka be reduced to home, the seductive monkey trainer who easily discovers the woman in the sacrificed mother. But Hassan is achieved by the terrible disease Saddika and will do everything possible to save his little son. ——IMDB

Egyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world, where unconditional drive for money rules. Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a rich businessman and his American wife, meets Hanane (Hanane Turk), a journalist of modest means at the airport on his return from his studies in the US. She is part of a campaign against a wealthy elite, which has thrived on plundering its own people. They fall in love and get married. Corruption is everywhere in the country and American interests are taking over the lucrative tourist trade. Adam's rich parents and their friends in the government are at the heart of this corrupt system. Adam's mother, Margaret (Nabila Ebeid), nourishes a strange affection for her son. She is possessive to the point of violence and is ready to get rid of Hanane, whom she considers her rival. Adam turns against the global economy of which his parents are the perfect ...

One of his most controversial films, THE SPARROW was written by Chahine in collaboration with avant-gardist Lofti el-Kholi. Set during the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the United Arab Republic this story of familial and national divisions has become one of Chahine's most popular films in festivals and retrospectives. A young policeman's adoptive father occupies a high post in the force, while his biological father is reputed to have been a left-wing activist. Raouf begins to search for those who might have known his real father, while his half-brother, stationed on the Sinai front, prepares for battle.
The Sparrow (El ‘Osfour) was banned in May 1973, then received in December of the same year the country’s highest cultural award. More importantly, however, is that starting from The Sparrow (El ‘Osfour), Chahine departed from the conventional mainstream cinema of his time and developed his own individual style, hence emerging as a pioneer in this respect; instead of using a linear plot, he displayed a new liking for fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of disparate material such as flashbacks, actual events, associations and documentary sequences. The overall result of these shifts was the inception of a new phase in his films which was dedicated to experimentation and innovation.

导演尤瑟夫·夏因首部被戛纳邀请的影片，并在评选中惜败给了《陆军野战医院》，本片被选入埃及影史百佳，改编自Abdel Rahman El Sharkawi 的小说。那时埃及还在英国的殖民统治下，反映了埃及三十年代农村状况，农民生活在自己土地上种植棉花，一年一度的灌溉来临。镇上农民被政府告知自己灌溉时间被缩短至只有几天，农民们团结起来和权贵阶层为自己被侵害的利益作斗争⋯⋯
另外本片主角演员Mahmoud El-Meliguy表演十分出色，他出演的农民Mohamed Abu Swelam 这个角色始终在激烈的斗争，一方面他希望守住自己的土地不受权贵侵犯，另一方面又对农民们的抗争前途表示无望。事实也证明了他的悲观想法。
本片也表达了导演渴望阿拉伯人民主宰中东的愿望 （1967年以色列发动第三次中东战争，埃及丧失大片国土）本片名字的阿拉伯文开头也是巴解组织的标识。

一个渔民离家三年归来后，却发现他爱的女子已跟他疏远，水手们正在陷入争执，而他所居住的社区也正分崩离析。

在职业生涯的巅峰，叶希亚加入绝食抗议、变得神魂颠倒，并应对创作危机，但庆幸的是，他遇到了让自己迷恋不已的新对象。

埃及导演夏因的“亚历山大三部曲”之一，以二战期间的埃及亚历山大城为背景，人物众多，谋刺丘吉尔的恐怖分子,热爱戏剧的学生，流亡的犹太人等。该片于1979年获柏林银熊奖。夏因在1982年和1990年分别完成了另外两部曲《埃及故事》（tt0084042）和《永恒的亚历山大》（ tt0099858）。

IMDB简介：The film revolves around a young Ahmed, who works as an agronomist, and who returns to his village in the south of the valley, where his father works as Headmaster cultivation, Vinjeh in improving the reeds strain. Then loves daughter Basha since they were young, but rivaled the Basha secretary who coveted in the marriage of Nadia .. coincided with anger Basha him because he has a monopoly on the export of sugar cane after optimization conducted by him, exploited Basha dispute between Sheikh Homestead and the beholder is called Basha, secretary fire on the beholder and fabricating the charge to Sheikh Homestead and start enmity between Ahmad and Ibn Sheikh Homestead to avenge his father.

1798年，拿破仑的远征军抵达埃及的亚历山大港，埃及人只能在本国和外国列强的双重压迫下生活。年轻人阿里的一家人都避往开罗，而他留了下来，决心和巴克尔等民族主义者一起和侵略者展开斗争。但不久以后，他们碰上了法军中知识渊博、并富于人道主义思想的将军卡伐莱里，并冒着被视为通敌分子的危险开始与其密切交往。阿里被理所当然地视为通敌分子，受到了一些不公的待遇。而当波拿巴特向埃及人举起手中的屠刀时，阿里毅然选择站到了人民的一边。卡伐莱里将军也身负重伤，在临死前他当面指责拿破仑忘记了曾经的革命理想，并为埃及有像阿里这样不存偏见的青年人而深感欣慰。

在伦敦接受心脏手术时，叶希亚反思自己的生活，于是他的心室变成了一个法庭，而他所犯下的错误在这里接受审判。

Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak.

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.

影片讲述了一个跨越半个世纪的爱情故事。一个来自埃及的留学生耶亚和金吉尔在美国相爱了。可是世事无常，命运无情地让这对痴心的恋人天隔一方，50年过去了耶亚和金吉尔都还深爱着对方，而且让耶亚惊喜的是，他竟然在很多年前已经和金吉尔有了一个孩子。然而出生在美国的儿子无法接受自己的父亲是个阿拉伯人这个现实……