There was a lot of revolutionary stuff going on in film in the 1990s. The most prevalent common denominator amongst films of that era - spanning through all of the different regions - was backtracking. In Iran, it was backtracking in actual time. There were several documentaries about documentaries - overlapping on time; building up the backstory of the film's story. Backtracking was used in Asian countries with soundtracks or with alluding to (and therefore paying homage to) the films that inspired them. There were a lot of horror films featuring girls with long, straight, black hair.
In this period, the transition was being made to digital cameras. As the advancement in technology occured, it was responded to in different ways by different filmmakers. While Iranian filmmakers embraced the present, Japanese filmmakers embraced the fear of technology prevalent among the Japanese people. Certain French filmmakers rejected the "improvements" in filming technology. They took the camera off the tripod, deleted the sets, switched back to square framing, and if the frame went out of focus, so be it.
There was a great awareness of reality prevalent in this time period. Filmmakers attempted to express human emotion as raw as possible. Filmmakers of this period blazed trails that are still being followed today.
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