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World cinema, the Glossary

World cinema is a term in film theory in the United States that refers to films made outside of the American motion picture industry, particularly those in opposition to the aesthetics and values of commercial American cinema.^[1]

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AACTA Awards

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).

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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Amélie

Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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Americentrism

Americentrism, also known as American-centrism or US-centrism, is a tendency to assume the culture of the United States is more important than those of other countries or to judge foreign cultures based on American cultural standards.

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Anatomy (film)

Anatomy (Anatomie) is a 2000 German horror film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky that stars Franka Potente.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Art film

An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

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Aryan Kaganof

Aryan Kaganof (born 1964 as Ian Kerkhof) is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Banger (film)

BANGER. is a 2022 Czech musical drama film directed by Adam Sedlák.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Blockbuster (entertainment)

A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a feature film produced by a major film studio, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) is a 2001 French period action horror film directed by Christophe Gans, co-written by Gans and Stéphane Cabel, and starring Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.

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Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual internationally accredited film festival held in Cairo Opera House.

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Camera phone

A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras.

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Canadian Screen Awards

The Canadian Screen Awards (Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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César Award for Best Foreign Film

The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (César du meilleur film étranger).

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. World cinema and cinema of the United States are cinema by country.

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Cinematography

Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.

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A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 martial arts film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Cyrus Frisch

Cyrus Frisch (born 1969) is a Dutch avant-garde film maker.

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Das Boot

Das Boot (The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann.

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Dhaka University Film Society

Dhaka University Film Society (in short DUFS) is a voluntary organization affiliated with the Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) at University of Dhaka.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Ethnocinema

Ethnocinema, from Jean Rouch’s cine-ethnography and ethno-fictions, is an emerging practice of intercultural filmmaking being defined and extended by Melbourne, Australia-based writer and arts educator, Anne Harris, and others.

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Eurocinema

EUROCINEMA is a worldwide television service dedicated to Award-Winning European films and selected Eurocentric lifestyle segments.

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Experimental film

Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Film award

Film award is a cinematic award which can be awarded in several categories.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Film festival

A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.

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Film preservation

Film preservation, or film restoration, describes a series of ongoing efforts among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images they contain.

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Film society

A film society is a membership-based club where people can watch screenings of films which would otherwise not be shown in mainstream cinemas.

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Film theory

Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.

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Filming location

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constructed on a movie studio backlot or soundstage.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.

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Ghost (2020 film)

Ghost is a 2020 British independent film written and directed by Anthony Zygavicius James as his debut feature.

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Godzilla 2000

is a 1999 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Takao Okawara, with special effects by Kenji Suzuki.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reward theatrically-released feature film not in the English language.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Golden Raspberry Awards

The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known as the Razzies and Razzie Awards) is a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic failures.

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Hero (2002 film)

Hero (p) is a 2002 ''wuxia'' film directed, co-written, and produced by Zhang Yimou, and starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen and Chen Daoming.

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High Flying Bird

High Flying Bird is a 2019 American sports drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh, from a story suggested by André Holland, with the screenplay by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

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High Tension

High Tension (French: Haute tension,; also known as Switchblade Romance in some international countries) is a 2003 French slasher film directed by Alexandre Aja, co-written with Grégory Levasseur, and starring Cécile de France and Maïwenn.

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History of film

The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.

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Home video

Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing.

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Hooked Up (film)

Hooked Up is a 2013 Spanish horror film directed by Pablo Larcuen, written by Larcuen and Eduard Sola, and starring Stephen Ohl, Jonah Ehrenreich, Natascha Wiese, and Júlia Molins.

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I WeirDo

I WeirDO is a 2020 Taiwanese romantic drama film written and directed by Liao Ming-yi (in his feature directorial debut), and starring Austin Lin, Nikki Hsieh.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies).

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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International Cinephile Society

The International Cinephile Society is an online organization of professional film critics and journalists worldwide.

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jalachhayam

Jalachhayam is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language experimental film, produced and directed by Sathish Kalathil under the banner of The People's Films.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.

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List of Academy Award–winning films

This is a list of Academy Award–winning films.

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List of cinema of the world

This is a list of cinema of the world by continent and country. World cinema and list of cinema of the world are cinema by country and cinema by location.

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List of film festivals

This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.

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List of films by box office admissions

The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing films that have sold at least tickets worldwide.

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List of foreign-language films nominated for Academy Awards

This article lists all the foreign language films which have been nominated for or won Academy Awards in any category, not just the International Feature Film category (known before the 2019 awards as Best Foreign Language Film) itself.

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List of highest-grossing non-English films

These are the highest-grossing, primarily non-English language films in the world.

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Lists of highest-grossing films

The following are lists of high-grossing films.

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Low culture

In society, the term low culture identifies the forms of popular culture that have mass appeal, often broadly appealing to the middle or lower cultures of any given society.

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Melbourne International Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Mockbuster

A mockbuster (also known as knockbuster or drafting opportunity) is a film created to exploit the publicity of another major motion picture with a similar title or subject.

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National cinema

National cinema is a term sometimes used in film theory and film criticism to describe the films associated with a specific nation-state.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Love Meetings

New Love Meetings is an Italian documentary film made on a Nokia N90, the first feature film shot entirely with a Camera phone.

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Nokia N70

The Nokia N70 is a 3G mobile phone from Nokia.

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Nokia N90

The Nokia N90 is a mobile phone, announced as part of Nokia's then-new line of multimedia devices, Nseries, on April 27, 2005.

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Nokia N95

The Nokia N95 is a mobile phone produced by Nokia as part of their Nseries line of portable devices.

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Pinocchio (2002 film)

Pinocchio is a 2002 Italian fantasy comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Roberto Benigni, who also stars.

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Pondicherry (film)

Pondicherry is a 2022 Indian Marathi-language relationship drama film directed by Sachin Kundalkar and produced by Creative Vibe Productions shot entirely on smartphone.

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Premiere

A premiere, also spelled première, (from première, 1er) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work.

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Prix Iris

The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.

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Production company

A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Samsung

Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.

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Sathish Kalathil

Sathish Kalathil is an Indian film and documentary director and producer in Malayalam.

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SBS World Movies

SBS World Movies is an Australian free-to-air television channel showing international movies.

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Shaolin Soccer

Shaolin Soccer (Chinese: 少林足球) is a 2001 Hong Kong sports comedy film directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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SMS Sugar Man

SMS Sugar Man is a South African narrative film shot entirely on Sony Ericsson W900i camera phones in 2008.

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Sony Ericsson W900i

The Sony Ericsson W900i is a 3G mobile phone manufactured by Sony Ericsson.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Subtitles

Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival is an annual competitive film festival held in Sydney, Australia, usually over 12 days in June.

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Talk to Her

Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) is a 2002 Spanish psychological melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosário Flores.

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Tangerine (film)

Tangerine is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker, and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, and James Ransone.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Third Cinema

Third Cinema (Tercer Cine) is a Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s–70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money.

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To Jennifer

To Jennifer is a 2013 American found footage horror film directed and edited by James Cullen Bressack, who co-wrote it with Chuck Pappas.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, founded in 1976 and taking place each September.

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Transnational cinema

Transnational cinema is a developing concept within film studies that encompasses a range of theories relating to the effects of globalization upon the cultural and economic aspects of film.

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Un indien dans la ville

Un indien dans la ville (An Indian in the city) is a 1994 French film directed by Hervé Palud.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Unsane

Unsane is a 2018 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer.

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Veenavaadanam

Veenaavaadanam is an experimental Indian documentary film entirely shot in a cell phone camera in Malayalam language duration with 28.23 minutes'.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_cinema

Also known as Foreign film, Foreign films, Foreign language film, Foreign movie, International Cinema.

, History of film, Home video, Hooked Up (film), I WeirDo, Independent film, India, International Cinephile Society, IPhone, Italy, Jalachhayam, Latin America, List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film, List of Academy Award–winning films, List of cinema of the world, List of film festivals, List of films by box office admissions, List of foreign-language films nominated for Academy Awards, List of highest-grossing non-English films, Lists of highest-grossing films, Low culture, Melbourne International Film Festival, Mockbuster, National cinema, Netherlands, New Love Meetings, Nokia N70, Nokia N90, Nokia N95, Pinocchio (2002 film), Pondicherry (film), Premiere, Prix Iris, Production company, Rowman & Littlefield, Samsung, Sathish Kalathil, SBS World Movies, Shaolin Soccer, Short film, SMS Sugar Man, Sony Ericsson W900i, South Africa, Subtitles, Sundance Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Talk to Her, Tangerine (film), The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Third Cinema, To Jennifer, Toronto International Film Festival, Transnational cinema, Un indien dans la ville, United States, Unsane, Veenavaadanam, Venice Film Festival, Warner Independent Pictures, Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan, World Cinema Project, Y tu mamá también, 9 Rides.

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