Middle Eastern and North African cinema
Despite all the setbacks, film industries still managed to somewhat grow. Youssef Chahine is an important Egyptian director who always included some kind of political commentary in his movies. He lived through very turbulant decades in Egypt and he is well-known for not accepting censorship over his art. He discussed topics such as the British occupation, Nasser's rule, Islamism, and the changing relationships between the Arab world and the Western world. One of his most important films is Jamila the Algerian (جميلة الجزائرية), produced in 1958, which came out after the Algerian fight independence. This is his first film in which the message was clearly political. Another important work of his is the documentary Cairo, As Told By Chahine (القاهرة منورة بأهلها), released in 1991, which showed the two sides of Cairo: an opulent center of the Arab world and city ridden by poverty and religious intolerance. In 1953 the first Turkish color film was produced by Muhsin Ertuğrul, called Carpet-weaving Girl. In Lebanon the Baalbek (Baalbeck) Studios get founded, which will be especially important in the 1960s. In 195 p7 the first Jordanian film gets produced, Struggle in Jarash. It was the first movie which was fully produced in Jordan by locals, and it was produced in Arabic. In the same year Where to? (إلى أين؟) by George Nasser was the first fully Lebanese movie that was presented at the Cannes Festival.