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World & Foreign Cinema Quiz
World & Foreign Cinema · Hard
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World and foreign cinema encompasses films produced outside Hollywood and English-language markets, representing an enormous diversity of storytelling traditions, aesthetics, and c...
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All 20 questions in this World & Foreign Cinema quiz
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Who directed 'The Battle of Algiers' (1966) - considered one of the most politically significan't films ever made?
- A. Marco Bellocchio
- B. Gillo Pontecorvo
- C. Bernardo Bertolucci
- D. Pier Paolo Pasolini
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What is the Colombian-American director Ciro Guerra's 'Embrace of the Serpent' (2015) about?
- A. A romantic film
- B. A black-and-white Colombian film following two scientific expeditions through the Amazon in different time periods - the first Latin American film nominated in the Academy Award's documentary feature category
- C. A Colombian war film
- D. A contemporary urban drama
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What is the Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel known for?
- A. Argentine action films
- B. Argentine romantic comedies
- C. Atmospheric films about middle-class provincial Argentina exploring race, class, and gender - 'La Cinaga' (2001) and 'Zama' (2017) are her most acclaimed works
- D. Argentine documentaries
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What is the Swiss-French film director Jean-Luc Godard's legacy in world cinema?
- A. One of cinema's most radical artists who reinvented film language through jump cuts, direct address, political analysis, and meta-cinematic techniques - his 2022 death at 91 through assisted dying ended a 60-year career
- B. A conventional Hollywood director
- C. A documentary filmmaker
- D. A Swiss television presenter
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What is the significance of Yasujir Ozu's pillow shots in cinema?
- A. A close-up technique
- B. A camera movement technique
- C. Static shots of empty spaces or objects inserted between scenes - Ozu used them as punctuation to create contemplative space and connect human drama to the wider world
- D. A shot showing a pillow
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What is the Taiwanese New Wave in cinema and who are its main directors?
- A. A 1990s action film movement
- B. A comedy movement
- C. A documentary tradition
- D. A 1980s-1990s movement featuring slow contemplative films about Taiwanese modernisation - Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang are its defining directors
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What is the significance of Bernardo Bertolucci's 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972)?
- A. Italy's first colour film
- B. A war film
- C. A family drama
- D. A sexually explicit Franco-Italian film starring Marlon Brando that caused enormous controversy in 1972 and explored grief, sexuality, and alienation - Bertolucci and the film were convicted of obscenity in Italy
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What is Jafar Panahi's significance in Iranian cinema despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government?
- A. He left Iran and directed abroad
- B. He made only documentaries before his ban
- C. He stopped directing after his ban
- D. An Iranian director who has continued making films clandestinely - 'This Is Not a Film' (2011) was smuggled out of Iran on a USB drive hidden in a cake - receiving international recognition despite bans
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What is the Austrian film 'Cach' (Hidden, 2005) by Michael Haneke about?
- A. A German historical drama
- B. A French film about a couple who receive anonymous surveillance tapes of their home - exploring guilt, colonialism, and the surveillance state
- C. An Austrian action film
- D. An Austrian romantic comedy
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What was the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture before Parasite?
- A. Life is Beautiful (1997)
- B. No film before Parasite had won Best Picture while also receiving a Foreign Language Film nomination
- C. Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
- D. Z (1969)
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What is the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan known for?
- A. Turkish romantic comedies
- B. Turkish horror films
- C. Turkish blockbuster action films
- D. Contemplative, visually magnificent films exploring Anatolian landscapes and human longing - 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' (2011) and 'Winter Sleep' (2014, Palme d'Or)
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What is the Chinese art cinema director Jia Zhangke known for?
- A. Chinese martial arts blockbusters
- B. Deeply observed films documenting China's rapid industrialisation and its human cost - 'Still Life' (2006) won the Golden Lion at Venice and 'A Touch of Sin' (2013) won Best Screenplay at Cannes
- C. Chinese romantic comedies
- D. Chinese science fiction
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What is the Argentinian director Carlos Sorn known for?
- A. Argentine action films
- B. Argentine musicals
- C. Quiet, humanist road films set in Patagonia - 'Bombn: El Perro' (2004) features a non-professional actor and his dog on a journey
- D. Argentine horror films
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What is the Romanian New Wave in cinema and which film most exemplifies it?
- A. A 2000s film movement using long takes and naturalistic acting - '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' (2007) by Cristian Mungiu best exemplifies it
- B. A 1960s Romanian documentary movement
- C. A 1920s movement
- D. A commercial entertainment genre
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What film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 alongside a rare jury prize tie?
- A. Bacurau
- B. Parasite (sole winner - but tied for the Palme d'Or)
- C. Parasite
- D. Atlantics
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What is the significance of Ousmane Sembne in African cinema?
- A. He made the first Egyptian film
- B. A Nigerian director who made Nollywood's first film
- C. A Senegalese director considered the father of African cinema whose films examined colonialism and traditional culture - La Noire de... (1966) was the first sub-Saharan African feature film
- D. He directed the first Indian film
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Who directed 'Woman in the Dunes' (Suna no Onna, 1964) - the Japanese surrealist masterpiece?
- A. Akira Kurosawa
- B. Hiroshi Teshigahara
- C. Yasujir Ozu
- D. Kenji Mizoguchi
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What is the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul known for?
- A. Slow, dreamlike films mixing memory, myth, and Thai rural life - 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives' (2010) won the Palme d'Or at Cannes
- B. Thai romantic dramas
- C. Thai action blockbusters
- D. Thai horror films
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What is the Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica known for?
- A. Musical comedies
- B. Slow contemplative films
- C. Chaotic, exuberant films mixing political history with magical realism and Roma music - 'Underground' (1995) won a controversial Palme d'Or
- D. Realistic social documentaries
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What is the Austrian film 'Funny Games' (1997) and what does it challenge about cinema?
- A. A conventional thriller
- B. A war film
- C. A disturbing film by Michael Haneke where two young men hold a family hostage - deliberately breaking the fourth wall to implicate the audience in their desire for screen violence
- D. A romantic comedy