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– Following the departure of the Soviet occupying forces, the Taliban impose absolute restrictions on films. Video players and TVs are confiscated and hung from telephone poles. Cinemas are closed, and fall into disrepair. [MORE] [ADD] |
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15/8 – Shine, Scott Hicks’ biopic of classical pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a psychological breakdown after years of abuse from his father, is released. Geoffrey Rush plays Helfgott, with Armin Mueller-Stahl as his father and John Gielgud as his teacher, Cecil Parkes. [MORE] [ADD] |
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14/9 - |
Scott Hicks' Shine wins this year’s People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Second and third places go to Hettie MacDonald's Beautiful Thing and Carroll Ballard's Fly Away Home respectively. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, in which Emily Watson plays the wife of a crippled Danish oil worker (Stellan Skarsgård) who embarks on a series of sexual liaisons at his bidding so that she can describe her experiences to him, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Norwegian group Schibsted acquires a major portion of Danish film distributor Metronome in partnership with TeleDanmark. [MORE] [ADD] |
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18/1 - |
Rama Rao Taraka Nandamuri dies of a heart attack in Hyderabad at the age of 72. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The first V. Shantaram Award for lifetime achievemnt in the field of documentary film is awarded to B. D. Garga. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy |
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Neil Jordan's Michael Collins wins the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, while the Grand Jury Special Prize is awarded to Otar Iosseliani’s Brigands, chapitre VII. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pakistan |
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Film superstar Sultan Rahi is assassinated. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Peru |
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– The Consejo Nacional de Cinematografía (CONACINE) is formed following the promulgation of Law no. 26.370, Ley de la Cinematografía Peruana in 1994. [MORE] [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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The government’s Film Development Strategy - the White Paper on Film - is announced, and an Interim Film Fund (IFF) is established to aid the allocation of 10 million Rand made available for film funding. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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An exhibition of 110 Turkish films is held at the Georges Pompidou Cultural Centre in Paris until 14th October. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Of the 311 films produced in Turkey between 1990 and 1996, only 74 reach the screen. [MORE] [ADD] |
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