In the mid-1980s, there was every reason to believe that the Mongolian film industry had reached its peak of development. By this time more than 80 percent of film making staff had completed higher or secondary education and worked in a variety of disciplines. One of the major directors of this time was D. Jigjid, who started his film career with People's Messenger, and successfully participated in the Moscow International Film Festival (1959) and Canadian International Film Festival (1960). D. Jigjid

Post-fall, or light at the end of the tunnel As the economic indicators grew and the market socio-economic system became relatively mature, positive things began to happen in the Mongolian film industry. For example, as a result of privatization in the 1990s, cinemas either ceased to exist or changed dramatically. They were replaced by video screening spots and basement rentals. In 2003, Yalalt Cinema was renovated as Tengis Cinema and in 2009 opened the Urguu, Urguu 2, Hunnu, Gegeenten, and Imax

The transition Mongolkino remained a powerful organization until Mongolia’s first post-socialist Constitution was adopted in 1992, a process that signaled the end of the Mongolian People’s Republic and its replacement with a state founded on democracy and free-market principles. During its distinguished 50-year history Mongolkino produced more than 160 feature films, 1,000 documentaries, and supported the development of more than 600 cinema and screening venues in urban and rural areas.   Since the end of the 1980s, when state funding for the film

In 1990 Mongolia’s socialist system ended, a process preceded by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and followed by the collapse of the USSR one year later in 1991. During this period Mongolia transitioned from a centrally planned, one party state to a free market democracy governed by a semi-presidential and parliamentary system. The process of transition included economic shock therapy. In the film industry this involved downsizing Mongolkino’s operations. Artists, engineers, technicians, and workers at this organization,