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Basic film concepts

Cinema by country

Film festival and awards

Annual awards for cinematic achievements

Method of creating moving pictures

Japanese animation

Blockbuster (entertainment)

Term for a popular film

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Independent charity

Cannes Film Festival

Annual film festival held in Cannes, France

Cinema of Africa

History and present of cinema in Africa

Refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia

Cinema of Australia

Cinema of Canada

Filmmaking industry in Canada

Cinema of China

Cinema of Egypt

Filmmaking industry in Egypt

Cinema of France

Filmmaking in France

Cinema of Germany

Filmmaking industry in Germany

Cinema of Greece

Overview of the cinema of Greece

Cinema of Hong Kong

Hong Kong film industry

Cinema of India

Cinema of Italy

Filmmaking in Italy

Cinema of Japan

Filmmaking industry in Japan

Cinema of Korea

Cinema of Mexico

Overview of the cinema of Mexico

Cinema of New Zealand

Overview of the cinema of New Zealand

Cinema of Nigeria

Cinema of Russia

Overview of the cinema of Russia

Cinema of South Africa

Cinema of Spain

Filmmaking industry in Spain

Cinema of Taiwan

Film industry of Taiwan

Cinema of the Soviet Union

Film history of the Soviet Union

Cinema of the United Kingdom

Cinema of the United States

Cinema of Turkey

Art of motion picture photography

Color motion picture film

Unexposed color photographic film in a format suitable for use in a motion picture camera

Genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour

Computer animation

Art of creating moving images using computers

Cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre

Style of filmmaking with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle

Experimental film

Cinematic works that are experimental form or content

Sequence of images that give the impression of movement, stored on film stock

Film distribution

Making a motion picture available to the public

Creative and technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking

Dedicated event to screen films

Classification of films based on similarities in narrative elements

Comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking

Style of crime drama films

Process of making a motion picture

Golden Globe Awards

Award of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Independent film

Film done outside major film studio system

MTV Movie & TV Awards

National Film Awards

State-instituted annual film awards in India

Highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival

Pornographic film

Films that present sexually explicit subject matter in order to arouse and satisfy the viewer

Post-production

Step in film, video, audio or photography process

Phase of producing a film or television show

Science fiction film

Any film not long enough to be considered a feature film

Film with no synchronized recorded dialogue

Sound track creation

Special Effects

Topics referred to by the same term

Animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own

Method of film production

Color motion picture process

Toronto International Film Festival

Annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Traditional animation

Animation technique in which frames are hand-drawn

Venice Film Festival

Annual film festival in Italy

Various processes by which imagery is created

Film genre depicting wars