As a result, the film could be only screened in an ephemeral and circumstantial way in some points of the interior of the country.
This comedy film had its screening forbidden in Buenos Aires by the Municipal Censorship Commission due to the conservative public criticising it as "apology for inmorality". La mujer más honesta del mundo ( The Most Honest Woman of the World) According to Reuters, the official source was quoted as saying that the film "promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances" and that it "does not comply with Algeria's religious and cultural beliefs."īanned during the conservative period of authoritarian governments known as " Infamous Decade" (1930–1943), for lampooning Nazi Germany Argentina had declared itself neutral during World War Two. On August 13, 2023, just three weeks after its release on July 19, the screenings of Barbie were halted in film theaters in Algeria.
īanned in every Arab League country except Lebanon. īanned from all Arab League states because actress Haya Harareet was Israeli. īanned for ten years under Communist government. While briefly lifted under the twenty-year rule of the Islamic Republic, the ban was re-instated upon the return of Taliban rule in 2021. During the five-year reign of the Islamic Emirate government in Afghanistan, watching film or television was prohibited.