Home›Landmark Works›Group›Middle Eastern and North African CinemaGroupMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaThis group collects the World and International Narrative Cinema subcategory's members whose primary country of origin is Iran, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia or Palestine, read from the member's own recorded Country fact or its description text. Turkey and Iran are filed here following the conventional world-cinema-festival classification of this dataset's own sample, an editorial choice rather than a cited external standard, documented so a later reviewer can revisit it; the group spans the Iranian New Wave, Egyptian classic-era cinema and the Algerian War-era political films.FactsMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1896 1Middle Eastern and North African CinemaFilter Results20 entriesCollectionAllMiddle Eastern and North African Cinema (20)CreatorAllAbbas Kiarostami (2)Asghar Farhadi (2)Dariush Mehrjui (1)Fatih Akın (1)Jafar Panahi (3)Metin Erksan (1)Mohammad Rasoulof (1)Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1)Nadav Lapid (1)Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2)Semih Kaplanoğlu (1)Youssef Chahine (1)Yılmaz Güney (1)İlker Çatak (1)Şerif Gören (1)MediumAllFilm (20)CountryAllEgypt (1)Iran (4)Release YearAll1958 (1)1963 (1)1969 (1)1975 (1)1982 (1)1990 (1)1997 (1)2000 (1)2004 (1)2010 (1)2011 (2)2014 (1)2015 (1)2016 (1)2019 (1)2020 (1)2025 (1)2026 (1)Original LanguageAllArabic (1)English (1)French (1)German (2)Hebrew (1)Persian (9)Turkish (4)AwardAllAcademy Award for Best International Feature Film (2)Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film (2)Best Film Award (La Rochelle) (1)Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (1)César Award for Best Foreign Film (1)FIPRESCI Prize at Istanbul (1)FIPRESCI Prize at Venice (1)Golden Bear (7)Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film (1)Palme d'Or (4)Quebec Film Critics Award (1)Silver Bear for Best Actor (1)Silver Bear for Best Actress (1)Sydney Film Prize (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 20A SeparationMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaA Taste of CherryMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaCairo StationMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaChronicle of the Years of FireMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaClose-UpMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaDry SummerMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaHead-On (film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaHoney (2010 film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaIt Was Just an AccidentMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaLebanonMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaOnce Upon a Time in AnatoliaMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaSynonyms (film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaTaxi (2015 film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaThe CircleMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaThe Cow (1969 film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaThe Salesman (2016 film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaThere Is No EvilMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaWinter Sleep (2014 film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaYellow LettersMiddle Eastern and North African CinemaYol (1982 film)Middle Eastern and North African CinemaSources1. WikipediaWikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Cinema of the Middle East, lead sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Cinema of the Middle East, lead sectioncinema was brought into most of the Arab countries by the beginning of the 20th century, particularly in Egypt in 1896, by Pathe Freres or the Lumiere Brothers.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.