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World Cinema Beyond Hollywood

Tokyo, Tehran, Rio and Ouagadougou. The films and movements that shaped cinema far from Los Angeles. Can you keep up once the subtitles arrive?

🎬 Movies hard 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Who directed the 1954 epic Seven Samurai?
  • The French New Wave grew out of critics writing for the magazine Cahiers du Cinema.
  • Which movement filmed post-war Italy on real streets, often using non-professional actors?
  • Which 1960 Jean-Luc Godard film is treated as a founding work of the French New Wave?
  • Which Federico Fellini film gave English the word 'paparazzi'?
  • Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy opens with which 1955 film?
  • Is 'Nollywood' the nickname for Nigeria's film industry?
  • Which Brazilian film, co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, follows life in a Rio favela?
  • Park Chan-wook's Oldboy belongs to which loosely linked set of films?
  • Select ALL of these that are works of Italian neorealism.
  • Which Iranian film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 ceremony?
  • Yasujiro Ozu typically placed his camera very low, near the height of someone kneeling on the floor.
  • Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are the best-known names of which group of Chinese filmmakers?
  • Which Iranian director won the Palme d'Or in 1997 for Taste of Cherry?
  • Ousmane Sembene, often called the father of African cinema, came from which country?
  • Select ALL of these directors who are Japanese.
  • Glauber Rocha was a leading voice of which Brazilian film movement of the 1960s?
  • FESPACO, the largest film festival on the African continent, is held in which city?
  • Order these films from earliest release to latest.
  • How many minutes long is the full uncut version of Seven Samurai?