Betty Blue
In 1988, government inspectors forced the withdrawal of 5 of 160 films that are to be screened at the festival. Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Betty Blue" and "Vedreba (The Plea)" by Tengiz Abuladze were among these five works. "Vedreba" was being blocked on the grounds that it was "anti-Islamic" and cuts from the other four films were demanded because of erotic scenes.