<P> The 2016 film The Wedding Party, directed by Kemi Adetiba, is the highest grossing Nollywood film of all time . </P> <P> Egyptian cinema is the flourishing cinema of North Africa . Since 1976, Cairo has held the annual Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), which is accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Association . Most of today's Egyptian movies and TV series are produced in the Egyptian Media Production City which is equipped with the latest equipment for shooting in outdoor and indoor studios . It includes about 64 high tech studios . Censorship, formerly an obstacle to freedom of expression, has decreased remarkably . The Egyptian cinema has witnessed a remarkable shift in terms of the taboos it may address . It has begun to tackle boldly issues ranging from sexual issues to heavy government criticism . The 1940s, 1950s and the 1960s are generally considered the golden age of Egyptian cinema . As in the West, films responded to the popular imagination, with most falling into predictable genres (happy endings being the norm), and many actors making careers out of playing strongly typed parts . In the words of one critic, "If an Egyptian film intended for popular audiences lacked any of these prerequisites, it constituted a betrayal of the unwritten contract with the spectator, the results of which would manifest themselves in the box office ." Since the 1990s, Egypt's cinema has gone in separate directions . Smaller art films attract some international attention but sparse attendance at home . Popular films, often broad comedies such as What A Lie!, and the extremely profitable works of comedian Mohamed Saad, battle to hold audiences either drawn to Western films or, increasingly, wary of the perceived immorality of film . </P> <P> The cinema of Iran (Persian: سینمای ایران) or cinema of Persia refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually . Iranian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following . </P> <P> Along with China, Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s . Some critics now rank Iran as the world's most important national cinema, artistically, with a significance that invites comparison to Italian neorealism and similar movements in past decades . A range of international film festivals have honored Iranian cinema in the last twenty years . World - renowned Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke and German filmmaker Werner Herzog, along with many film critics from around the world, have praised Iranian cinema as one of the world's most important artistic cinemas . </P>

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