Middle Eastern and North African cinema
In 1990, Iraq invades Kuweit, and in 1991 the U.S.A. invades Iraq starting the Gulf War. Just a year later, in 1992, Algeria gets in a 10-year-long Civil War. These conflicts put a rough end, or long pause, to the film industries of these countries. Algerian cinema, once very successful in the MENA, crumbled with the cinema sector being privatized in 1993 and the government organization responsible for funding closing down by 1998.