Middle Eastern and North African cinema
The 1930s begin with Egypt leading another successful production of a full length silent movie, Zeinab, and with the first Iranian movie being produced, Abi and Rabi. 1932 was a groundbreaking year for Egyptian and MENA cinema, with the first two movies with sound being produced. For technical reasons, they had to be recorded in Paris, France. 1932 was also the year that the first movie with clear Zionist ideas emerged, Oded The Wanderer. For context, despite Isreal being officially established in 1948, there were big waves of immigration of Zionist Jews in the area of Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s because of the Balfour Declaration.