The film industry in Albania comprises the art of films and movies made within the country or by Albanian directors abroad. Albania has had an active cinema industry since 1897 and began strong activities in 1940 after the foundation of both the "Kinostudio Shqipƫria e Re" and National Center of Cinematography in Tirana.
Merita Sokoli is regarded as the first female actor in Albanian cinema.
The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
1926 Tianyi film Lady Meng Jiang, starring Hu Die
20-year-old Ruan Lingyu, a superstar during the silent film era, in Love and Duty (1931)
Jin Yan, a Korean-born Chinese actor featured in The Big Road (1935), who gained fame during China's golden age of cinema
Zhou Xuan, an iconic Chinese singer and film actress