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– The ADTCB is renamed Fédération des Cinémas de Belgique (FCB) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Idrissa Ouedraogo’s film Tilai wins the Best Film award at the 12th Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougou. The jury at this year’s awards is presided over by Malian director Souleymane Cissé. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Canada |
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Cynthia Scott's The Company of Strangers (aka Strangers in Good Company and Le Fabuleux gang des sept) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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David Cronenberg begins filming his adaptation of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, long considered an unfilmable piece of work. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cyprus |
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– The number of cinemas on the island falls to just 10 (from 33 in 1985) due to the increased used of VCRs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Estonia |
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– Roman Baskin’s Rahu tänav is short-listed for the Felix Award. [MORE] [ADD] |
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India |
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Actress Nutan Behl dies of cancer at the age of 54. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Actress Durga Khote dies in Bombay at the age of 86. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy |
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Nikita Mikhalkov’s Urga (Close to Eden) is awarded the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award at a televised ceremony held at Saint Mark’s Square. The Silver Lion is shared by three films, Philippe Garrel's J'entends plus la guitare (I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar), Yimou Zhang's Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Raise the Red Lantern) and Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan |
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– Yashuchi Kotima’s Rough Sketch of a Spiral, the country’s first full-length documentary about gays, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Laos |
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– The National Film Archive and Video Centre is established. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Macedonia |
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– The Cinematheque of Macedonia is accepted into The International Federation of Film Archives (IFAF) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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Director Lino Brocka dies in a car accident. His last film, Orapronobis (aka Fight for Us and Les Insoumis), was released in 1989. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Portugal |
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A Divina Comédia (The Divine Comedy), Manoel de Oliveira’s loose adaptation of Dante, is released. Maria de Medeiros and Luis Miguel Cintra star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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– The Film and Broadcasting Forum is established to address the problems within the industry. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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Procinéma, the Swiss association of film distributors and exhibitors, is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Zimbabwe |
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– Neria, Zimbabwe’s highest-grossing film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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