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The Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, India, producing more films than any other national cinema except Nigeria.

A 1995 Danish filmmaking manifesto demanding stripped-down production with handheld cameras, natural light, and no genre conventions.

A fiction film or series shot in documentary style to satirise its subject or the documentary form itself.

An Italian film movement of the 1940s using real locations, non-professional actors, and working-class stories.

The American film movement of the late 1960s and 1970s in which young directors gained creative control from studios.

The French film movement of the late 1950s and 1960s that rejected studio convention for personal, low-budget, location-shot cinema.