Middle Eastern and North African cinema
In the same decade other countries were experiencing mass growth in their national film industries. In 1972, Egypt saw one of its greatest productions Watch Out for Zuzu (خلي بالك من زوزو) featuring one of the greatest Egyptian actresses, Souad Hosni. In the same year, Syria organized the first International Film Festival for Young Arab Cinema in Damascus, and the Yeşilçam production in Turkey reached an average of about 300 productions annually. Algeria also experienced growth in the 70s. In 1975 Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina produced Chronicle of the Years of Ashes (وقائع سنن الخمر), a movie about resistance and the fight for independence in Algeria. Lakhdar won the Palme D'or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975 for the production of that film. This movie was the most expensive Algerian production so far, and it popularized Algerian cinema internationally. In 1978, The Nubah of the Women of Mount Chenoua was the first Algerian film directed by a woman, Assia Djebar