Raymond Depardon – Cinéma d'été (Open-Air Cinema): A small crowd attends a makeshift movie theatre.
Takeshi Kitano – One Fine Day: An older gentleman deals with an incompetent projectionist (Kitano).
Theo Angelopoulos – Trois minutes (Three Minutes): A woman (Jeanne Moreau) confesses her love to a fellow filmgoer who doesn’t reciprocate.
Andrei Konchalovsky – Dans le noir (In the Dark): An aged cinema owner (Ela Sanko) attempts to watch 8½, while sex-crazed youths make out behind her.
Nanni Moretti – Diario di uno spettatore (Diary of a Moviegoer): Moretti himself recounts treasured movie memories.
Hou Hsiao-hsien – The Electric Princess Picture House: A family in 1940s Taiwan goes to see a film in a suddenly abandoned or decrepit theatre.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Dans l'obscurité (Darkness): A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member (Émilie Dequenne).
Joel and Ethan Coen – World Cinema: A cowboy resembling Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) decides between art films at the Aero Theatre.
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Anna: A blind woman (Luisa Williams) is profoundly moved listening to her boyfriend interpret the end of Contempt.
Zhang Yimou – En regardant le film (Movie Night): A young boy is enchanted by the arrival of a travelling movie show in his village.
Amos Gitai – Le Dibbouk de Haifa (The Dybbuk of Haifa): Movie houses in 1930s Poland and present-day Israel are attacked.
Jane Campion – The Lady Bug: A theatre janitor (Clayton Jacobson) fights a playful, dancing human-sized insect (Genevieve Lemon).
Atom Egoyan – Artaud Double Bill: Vapid young people are more concerned with texting each other than the films they are nominally watching, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vivre Sa Vie, and a porno.
Aki Kaurismäki – La Fonderie (The Foundry): Factory workers on lunch break sit down to enjoy a Lumiére silent film of workers on lunch break.
Olivier Assayas – Recrudescence (Upsurge): A thief with an ambiguous relationship to a young woman (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) steals her purse during a screening.
Youssef Chahine – 47 ans après (47 Years Later): A young Chahine (Karim Kassem) and his lead actress (Yosra El Lozy) commiserate over the critical failure of their movie at Cannes.
Tsai Ming-liang – It's a Dream: A man (Lee Kang-sheng) remembers bonding with his family and the small audience at a theatre in Kuala Lumpur.
Lars von Trier – Occupations: Von Trier plays himself, berating and violently hammering a loudmouthed businessman (Jacques Frantz) to death during the premiere of Manderlay.
Raoul Ruiz – Le Don (The Gift): A blind man (Michael Lonsdale) tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village.
Claude Lelouch – Cinéma de boulevard (The Cinema Around the Corner): A memoir of how the movie Top Hat impacted the director’s family throughout the years.
Gus Van Sant – First Kiss: A young projectionist falls in love with a girl in a film.
Roman Polanski – Cinéma érotique: A middle aged couple watching Emmanuelle are annoyed by an apparent masturbator.
Michael Cimino – No Translation Needed: An obnoxious theatre owner and amateur filmmaker (Cimino) makes a music video for a Cuban band.
David Cronenberg – At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World: In a dystopian future, the horrific act of the title character (Cronenberg) and its societal implications are the subject of bland media obsession.
Wong Kar-wai – I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You: A young man eating fruit (Fan Chih Wei) thinks of his lover.
Abbas Kiarostami – Where Is My Romeo?: Various Iranian women, including Golshifteh Farahani, Hamideh Kheirabadi, and Pegah Ahangarani, watch Romeo and Juliet and cry. This short is similar to Kiarostami’s 2008 film Shirin.
Bille August – The Last Dating Show: A man (Frank Hvam) translating a Danish movie for his non-fluent date (Anne-Marie Curry) runs afoul of aggressive audience members.
Elia Suleiman – Irtebak (Awkward): A Palestinian director (Suleiman) is uncomfortable at a film festival.
Manoel de Oliveira – Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting): A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev (Michel Piccoli) and Pope John XXIII (Duarte d'Almeida) is screened.
Walter Salles – À 8 944 km de Cannes (5,557 Miles from Cannes): In front of a marquee for The 400 Blows, two Brazilian singers trade songs about visiting the Cannes Film Festival.
Wim Wenders – War in Peace: The inhabitants of a Congo village watch and discuss Black Hawk Down.
Chen Kaige – Zhanxiou Village: Small children rig up a projector to watch a Charlie Chaplin film, only to be scared off by a nosy adult.
Ken Loach – Happy Ending: A father (Bradley Walsh) and son argue about the screenings at a multiplex, ultimately deciding to go watch football instead.
David Lynch – Absurda: A sinister projectionist shows a group of teens a nightmarish vision of a murder. As he rolls the film, the teens appear to be compelled to commit it.
