The extremely graphic and disturbing nature of A Serbian Film resulted in the movie being banned in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Norway.It was also banned in four Indian states until the Supreme Court of India overruled the ban. In addition, the Russian Ministry of Culture recommended that the film not be shown in theaters, at least partly out of fear that the country's substantial Central Asian minority would not understand that the film is really meant to lampoon American ignorance (partly because they might not believe that anyone can be that ignorant of their culture). Similarly, Kazakhstan banned the film for similar reasons, but later relented after the government admitted to a tourist boom linked to the film's popularity. In fact, he and his colleagues walked out of the room before it even ended. In one account, a censor in the United Arab Emirates stated that only half an hour of the film would have been left had they censored the offensive scenes rather than ban it outright. Borat got banned in every single Arab country except for Lebanon as the film censors in those countries found it impossible to even censor without leaving plot holes open.
Interestingly, the novels are not banned in UAE, and can be displayed quite prominently in bookstores, including, of all places, Abu Dhabi International Airport.
It's also been banned in Kenya, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and India, for unspecified reasons.