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"What do you think you are willing to do?"

2008

1h 40m

5.2(15 votes)

Drama

Overview

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

57 members

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Nigist Anteneh

Tiya (segment "Tiya's Dream")

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Tefera Gizaw

Tiya's father (segment "Tiya's Dream")

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Fekadu Kebede

Teacher (segment "Tiya's Dream")

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Ingvar E. Sigurðsson

Father (segment "The Letter")

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Hringur Ingvarsson

Son (segment "The Letter")

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Dieudonné Ilboudo

Man (segment "SIDA")

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Konkona Sen Sharma

Zeinab (segment "How can it be ?")

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Ranvir Shorey

Arif (segment "How can it be ?")

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Birsa Chatterjee

Son (segment "How can it be?")

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Alice Englert

Ziggy (segment "The Water Diary")

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Tintin Marova Kelly

Sam (segment "The Water Diary")

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Isidore Tillers

Felicity Miles (segment "The Water Diary")

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Harry Greenwood

Simon (segment "The Water Diary")

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Miranda Jakich

Mrs. Miles (segment "The Water Diary")

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Justine Clarke

Mother (segment "The Water Diary")

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Russell Dykstra

Father (segment "The Water Diary")

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Ian Abdulla

Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")

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Di Adams

Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")

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Chris Haywood

Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")

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Loydi Hucshva Haynas

Panshin Beka (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

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Olivia Aravelo Lomos

Nonna (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

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Denis Rafael Barbaran

Marito (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

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Auristela Brito Valles

Panshin Beka's friend (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

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Pendo Duku

(segment "Person to Person")

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Tsehaie Kidane

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

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Megan Gay

Ronda (segment "Person to Person")

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Bhasker Patel

(segment "Person to Person")

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Robert Seeliger

(segment "Person to Person")

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Ian T. Dickinson

Frank (segment "Person to Person")

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Tomas Spencer

Seymour (segment "Person to Person")

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Gerhard Gutberlet

(segment "Person to Person")

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Aminata M. Kalokoh

(segment "Person to Person")

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Mena Z. Kalokoh

(segment "Person to Person")

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Augusto Aguilera

Lender (segment "Person to Person")

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Aba Arthur

African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

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Bob Geldof

Himself

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Melissa Butts

Lender

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Youssou N'Dour

Himself

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Campino

Himself

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Lavetta Cannon

African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

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Luis Fernandez-Gil

Guatemalan Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

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Herbert Grönemeyer

Himself

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Yolanda Hester

African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

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Michael Lehr

Lender (segment "Person to Person")

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Angela Malhotra

Borrower - East Indian (segment "Person to Person")

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Marta Cross

Costa Rican Borrower (segment "Person to Person") (as Marta McGonagle)

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Vanessa Paul

The Lender (segment "Person to Person")

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Shai Fali

Borrower- East Indian (segment "Person to Person") (as Shaifali Ratti)

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Kaius Harrison

Lender (segment "Person to Person") (as Kharrison Sweeney)

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Rodney Charles

Lender

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Constance Ejuma

African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

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Susanne Herrmann

(segment "Person to Person")

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Grace Matias

Lawyer

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Pendo Nyinondi

African Borrower 'Person to Person' (as Pendo)

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Jessica Shelby

(segment "Person to Person")

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Jennifer Popagain

Panamanian Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

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Geneviève Lemon

Pam Garner (segment "The Water Diary")

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