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1986

China

Jan -

Responsibility for the country’s film industry passes from the Ministry of Culture to the newly formed Ministry of Radio, Cinema and Television to bring it under ‘stricter control and management’ and to ‘strengthen supervision over production.’ [MORE] [ADD]

Denmark

– The different needs of different sized cinemas results in a restructuring of the Association of Danish Cinemas (DBF).  [MORE] [ADD]

Dominican Republic

– The National Film Library is closed.  [MORE] [ADD]

Finland

17/10 -

Varjoja Paratiisissa (Shadows in Paradise), the third in Aki Kaurismäki's ‘working class’ trilogy, is released. Matti Pellonpää and Kati Outinen star. [MORE] [ADD]

– The country’s major cinema chains merge into Finnkino Ltd, under the leadership of Jukka Mäkelä, grandson of film pioneer, Väinö Mäkelä. [MORE] [ADD]

– The last issue of trade journal Suomen Kinolehti is published, six years after the death of its originator, Yrjö Rannikko. [MORE] [ADD]

West Germany

Nov -

The Filmforderungstalt fund is established to finance production and distribution through levies on cinema admissions, videotapes and television. [MORE] [ADD]

Gibraltar

– Denis Amar’s Marine Issue (AKA Instant Justice), the first – and to date, only – feature film made in Gibraltar, is released. [MORE] [ADD] 

India

13/12 -

Actress Smita Patil dies from complications after giving birth in Bombay at the age of 31. [MORE] [ADD]

– The Indian National Film Development Corporation is established to develop better quality cinema. [MORE] [ADD]

Italy

3/9 -

Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray or Summer), the fifth film of Eric Rohmer's series of Comedies and Proverbs, wins the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival.   Marie Rivière stars in a film in which the dialogue is completely improvised. [MORE] [ADD]

– The country’s first Multiplex cinema, the Odeon, opens in Milan.   It has 8 screens.  [MORE] [ADD]

Mauritius

– The Mauritius Film Development Corporation is founded to promote tax-free film-making in the country.  [MORE] [ADD]

Spain

8/11 -

The Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences, AACCE) is founded. [MORE] [ADD]

USSR

18/5 -

At a meeting of the Soviet Union of Film Makers presided over by Mikhail Gorbachev, Lev Khulidjanov is replaced as first secretary by Elem Klimov.   The Union slowly begins releasing films that have previously been banned in the Soviet Union. [MORE] [ADD]

9/8 -

Elem Klimov’s article, ‘The Cinema Will Not Wait,’ is published in Pravda.  [MORE] [ADD]

Vietnam

– The General Film Studio (Xưởng phim Tổng hợp) becomes the General Film Enterprise (Xí Nghiệp Phim Tổng Hợp). [MORE] [ADD]