BERLIN -- Iranian film director Samira Makhmalbaf and 10 other renowned filmmakers, taking part in a film project marking the September 11 terrorist attacks, will show their short movies at the upcoming film festivals in Venice (Sept. 6) and Toronto (Sept. 11), the daily ***Sueddeutsche Zeitung*** said here Tuesday.

The film entitled **"11/09/01"*** was the idea of French television producer Alain Brigand who contacted some of the world's famous producers like American Sean Penn, India's Mira Nair, Egypt's Youssef Chahine, UK's Ken Loach and Burkina Faso's Idrissa Ouedraoga to make 11 episodes on the aftermath of the September 11 terror acts, IRNA reported.

Each short movie has a symbolic length of 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one frame ***(11/09/01)*** and the directors are free to select their topic and native actors or actresses for the episode.

Samira Makhmalbaf's piece deals with the daily lives of Afghans in Iranian refugee camps. Asked about her reaction to the unique film project, the 22-year-old female director said, "I find it interesting that 11 filmmakers from different cultures create a movie on the same subject: A universal event, without knowing each other or communicating with each other." Makhmalbaf added, "This work lets the movie industry use democratic dialogue between authors instead of imposing a one-way one."

The movie has so far been sold to 11 countries, however will not be shown in the United States any time soon.