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World & Foreign Cinema Quiz
World & Foreign Cinema Quiz
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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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What is the significance of the Nollywood film industry?
- A. The Nigerian film industry - the world's second largest by number of films produced annually - producing thousands of low-budget direct-to-video films primarily for African and diaspora audiences
- B. Egypt's film industry
- C. Nigeria's small art cinema movement
- D. South Africa's film industry
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What is the Argentinian film 'Wild Tales' (Relatos salvajes, 2014) directed by Damin Szifron about?
- A. A romantic comedy anthology
- B. A conventional drama
- C. An anthology film of six short stories about violence, revenge, and justice in contemporary Argentina - an international hit nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- D. A documentary
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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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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 Shaepee of Water
- C. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- D. Volver
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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 exepeerience 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 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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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 Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai known for?
- A. Realistic social documentaries
- B. Lyrical films about memory, longing, and time including 'In the Mood for Love' and 'Chungking Express' - known for visually distinctive cinematography and fragmented narratives
- C. Making martial arts action films
- D. Horror films set in contemporary Hong Kong
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What country produced 'Y Tu Mam Tambin' (2001) and who directed it?
- A. Brazil - Fernando Meirelles
- B. Argentina - Pablo Larran
- C. Mexico - Alfonso Cuarn
- D. Spain - Pedro Almodvar
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What is Bong Joon-ho's 'Memories of Murder' (2003) about?
- A. A South Korean true crime film about the first serial murders in Korean history and the incomepeetent investigation that failed to find the killer
- B. A science fiction thriller
- C. A suepeernatural horror film
- D. A romantic drama
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What is the Japanese film 'Tokyo Story' (1953) by Yasujir Ozu considered?
- A. Regularly ranked among the greatest films ever made - a quiet family drama about elderly parents visiting their adult children who are too busy for them
- B. Japan's first colour film
- C. Japan's first action film
- D. A science fiction epic
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What is the Egyptian film industry's historical significance in Arabic cinema?
- A. Egypt only makes documentaries
- B. Egypt has the oldest and most prolific Arab film industry - dubbed the Hollywood of the Arab world - with films from the Golden Age of Egyptian cinema (1940s-1960s) still widely watched across the Arab world
- C. Egypt's industry began in 2000
- D. Egypt has no significan't film industry
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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 significance of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films produced in Italy?
- A. French crime films set in the American West
- B. Italian remakes of American westerns
- C. Italian-produced westerns filmed in Spain and Africa that reinvented the genre - including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- D. German western films
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What is the French director Franois Ozon known for in contemporary world cinema?
- A. French action blockbusters
- B. French documentaries
- C. French animation
- D. Provocative, formally inventive French films exploring desire and identity including '8 Women' (2002) and 'Swimming Pool' (2003)
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What is the Israeli film 'Waltz with Bashir' (2008) notable for?
- A. Being a conventional documentary
- B. A historical drama without animation
- C. An Israeli romantic comedy
- D. An animated documentary about an Israeli soldier's recovered memories of the 1982 Lebanon War - a unique blending of animation and documentary truth
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What Brazilian director made 'Central Station' (1998) - an internationally acclaimed film about a former schoolteacher and a young boy?
- A. Fernando Meirelles
- B. Jos Padilha
- C. Walter Salles
- D. Joo Pedro Rodrigues
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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 '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 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