Welcome back to our next entry in our world cinema series. After wrapping up in Europe last month, we are now moving eastwards where we'll be focussing on the Middle East, and Western and Central Asia. Make sure you hit the subscribe button for our next entry in this series on 7th June, where we will be looking at the other half of Asia.

ELIGIBILITY & NOTES
- Films from now-dissolved nations such as the Soviet Union will be assigned to the new nations according to where the majority of production, filming, crew, finance etc. took place.
- We have heavily researched the eligibility for all of the featured film's countries of origin. Looking at aspects such as the nationalities of the directors and producers, filming locations, the origin of financial support, production companies, award wins, and much more, therefore the countries of origin are accurate.
- The transcontinental country of Russia has not been included and is featured in our aforementioned Eastern Europe video instead.
- We aren't technically listing the "best" films of each country, but rather a film that we personally believe to be a worthy representation of the country of origin's film industry.
- This list isn't just limited to narrative features, we are allowing documentaries and short films too, specifically for those countries with a more sparse film industry.

TIMESTAMPS
Afghanistan (0:19) | Armenia (0:38) | Azerbaijan (0:56​) | Bahrain (01:13) | Georgia (01:30) |
Iran (01:47) | Iraq (02:01) | Israel (02:18) | Jordan (02:33) | Kazakhstan (02:49) | Kuwait (03:04) | Kyrgyzstan (03:17) | Lebanon (03:37) | Oman (03:55) | Pakistan (04:05) | Palestine (04:22) |
Qatar (04:42) | Saudi Arabia (05:00) | Syria (05:18) | Tajikistan (05:35) | Turkey (05:50) | Turkmenistan (06:14) | United Arab Emirates (06:32) | Uzbekistan (06:49) | Yemen (07:02)

Have a different choice of film from your country? Post your opinions in the comments below!

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