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World & Foreign Cinema Quiz
World & Foreign Cinema · Medium
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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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Which French director created the New Wave films 'The 400 Blows' (1959) and 'Jules and Jim' (1962)?
- A. Franois Truffaut
- B. Claude Chabrol
- C. Jacques Rivette
- D. Jean-Luc Godard
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What is the Greek Weird Wave in cinema and who is its most internationally known director?
- A. A 1960s Greek documentary movement
- B. A horror film genre
- C. A contemporary Greek cinema movement with surrealist and satirical elements - Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) is its most internationally recognised figure
- D. A musical cinema tradition
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What is the Mexican film 'Pan's Labyrinth' - in what language and what Oscar did it win?
- A. Portuguese - won Best Foreign Language Film
- B. French - won Best Foreign Language Film
- C. English - won Best Director
- D. Spanish - won three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Makeup - but was not submitted by Spain for Best Foreign Language Film
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What is the significance of Akira Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' (1950) in cinema history?
- A. The first Japanese film to use colour
- B. Introduced slow motion cinematography
- C. The first film with a female director
- D. Introduced the narrative concept of multiple conflicting perspectives of the same event - radically influencing world cinema storytelling
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What is the Mexican film 'Amores Perros' (2000) that launched director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu internationally?
- A. A structurally complex film about three stories connected by a car accident in Mexico City - a landmark of Mexican cinema and Irritu's debut feature
- B. A documentary
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A historical epic
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What is the Japanese animated film 'Grave of the Fireflies' (1988) about and who directed it?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. Isao Takahata - a devastating Studio Ghibli film about two orphaned siblings trying to survive the firebombing of Japan at the end of World War II
- C. A robot film
- D. Hayao Miyazaki - a fantasy film
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What is the Hungarian film 'Son of Saul' (Saul fia, 2015) about?
- A. A Hungarian historical comedy
- B. A Hungarian film about a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz who tries to give a proper burial to a boy he believes is his son - won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- C. A contemporary drama
- D. A World War I drama
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What is the Indian director Mira Nair known for internationally?
- A. Indian horror films
- B. Cross-cultural dramas including 'Salaam Bombay!' (1988) - nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - and 'Monsoon Wedding' (2001) which won the Golden Lion
- C. Only Bollywood films
- D. Only American films
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What is 'The Hunt' (Jagten, 2012) by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg about?
- A. A Danish drama about a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of child abuse and the community's destruction of his life based on an unverified allegation
- B. A medieval chase film
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A war film
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What is the Chinese film 'Farewell My Concubine' (1993) and what made it historically significan't?
- A. A South Korean romance
- B. A Hong Kong action film
- C. Japan's first colour film
- D. A Chinese epic by Chen Kaige about two Peking Opera performers across 50 years of Chinese history - the first Chinese film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes
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What is the Russian film 'Come and See' (Idi i smotri, 1985) considered in cinema history?
- A. One of the most powerful anti-war films ever made - depicting a Belarusian boy's experience of Nazi atrocities during World War II with hallucinating intensity
- B. A science fiction film
- C. Russia's first comedy
- D. A propaganda film supporting war
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What is the Chilean film 'No' (2012) directed by Pablo Larran about?
- A. Chilean war
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A film depicting the 1988 Chilean referendum campaign using advertising executive Gael Garca Bernal to bring down General Pinochet's dictatorship - nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- D. A supernatural horror film
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What is the German film 'M' (1931) directed by Fritz Lang about?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. A science fiction film
- C. A groundbreaking thriller about a child murderer hunted by both police and organised crime - one of the first sound masterpieces and a landmark of German cinema
- D. A war film
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What is the Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy known for in cinema?
- A. Pakistani romantic films
- B. Documentary filmmaking - she is the first Pakistani to win multiple Academy Awards for documentaries including 'Saving Face' (2012) and 'A Girl in the River' (2016)
- C. Pakistani feature films
- D. Pakistani animated series
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What is the significance of Parasite in the context of South Korean cinema's international rise?
- A. Parasite was South Korea's first internationally distributed film
- B. It was an isolated achievement with no wider Korean cinema context
- C. South Korean cinema was unknown before Parasite
- D. It represents the culmination of two decades of South Korean cinema's growing global profile - from Oldboy through The Host to Train to Busan - that prepared international audiences for a Korean film to win the Oscars' highest prize
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What is the significance of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy in Indian cinema?
- A. A trilogy of Bengali films (1955-1959) considered India's greatest artistic cinematic achievement - bringing Indian cinema to international attention for the first time
- B. India's first commercial blockbuster
- C. The first Bollywood film to use sound
- D. The first Indian film to win at Cannes
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What is the significance of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and when was it introduced?
- A. It has existed since 1929
- B. Introduced in 1948 (as Best Foreign Language Film, renamed in 2020) to honour films produced outside the United States - won most often by Italy, France, Spain, and more recently South Korea and Iran
- C. Introduced in 1970 after lobbying by European studios
- D. It is an honorary award not voted on
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Which Spanish-language film directed by Pan's Labyrinth director won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2006?
- A. Pan's Labyrinth
- B. The Shape of Water
- C. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- D. Volver
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Who directed the Italian neorealist classic 'Bicycle Thieves' (1948)?
- A. Roberto Rossellini
- B. Vittorio De Sica
- C. Federico Fellini
- D. Luchino Visconti
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What is the Lebanese film 'Capernaum' (Capharnam, 2018) directed by Nadine Labaki about?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. A Lebanese war film
- C. A Lebanese drama about a 12-year-old boy who sues his parents for bringing him into a life of poverty and neglect - nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- D. A historical film