Middle Eastern and North African cinema
In 1922 the first short film was produced in Tunisia, named Zohra, and shortly after the first long film was produced. In 1928 the first movie was produced in Syria with a native director and leading actor, and in 1929 Jordano Pidutti an Italian director, directed a film about a Lebanese immigrant in the United States. Badr and Ibrahim Lama are the first Palestinian filmmakers. They were born in Chile but moved to Egypt to produce their first film in 1927. They are also very significant figures of Arab and MENA cinema.