Film Censorship Filmes

A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in...

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of...

A feature-length documentary that tells the story of the Censorship of Films Act 1923 and how one canny term in that statute has allowed consecutive...

For many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot...

A short documentary exploring the theatrical release of Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle (1974) in Ontario, Canada, at the time of a major shift in its...

During a film shoot in Tehran the director is trying to film a romantic scene but the government censor keeps interrupting and getting involved.

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office...

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival...

In early 2000s Dhaka, a film journalist searches for a controversial B-list star in the chaos of a push to ban vulgar movies.

After a 25-year battle with Thai censorship, a filmmaker discusses the value of art in society.

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In...