Winners of the CineTV contest: Foreign Cinema

Welcome to CineTv periodic contest

Hereby, the results and winners of the last cinetv contest - foreign cinema are published in the following section.

However, I will apologize as there was a delay in announcing the result, which resulted from unforeseeable and unavoidable predicaments. But let's not ponder upon them anymore.

We've selected the winners and they are...

• 3RD Place — 200 CINE

@wiseagent — Who you really are: The different faces of human beings

Wiseagent writes about an Argentinian anthology film named "Wild Tales". Aptly deducing the implications and nature of the film, he seeks comparative relationships between Brazilian and Argentinian cinema.

• 2ND Place — 300 CINE

@gabrielserra — Cidade de Deus - Best foreign film I ever seen

gabrielserra discusses the language barrier and what it means to him. He takes us to City of God, perhaps the most renowned Brazillian film and tells us how it differs from a Hollywood production and how the deliberate raw crudeness of it, along with fitting cinematography makes it great.

• 1ST Place — 500 CINE

@jesustiano — Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) 1978

Jesustiano delves deep into Bergman's Autumn Sonata. His impression, understanding of the film, and the way of elaborating the characters, their driving forces in relation to the plot Bergman intricately created are commendable—to say the least. It was a delight to read it.

Congrats! Great entries!

1000 CINE COINS, sponsored by @zayedsakib and @notacinephile have been transferred to the winners.

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Lastly, I (@notacinephile) want to finish with a personal parting note. After announcing the contest post, I was pondering upon what cinema is foreign to me. And I couldn't immediately think of any. Anything that is not English is foreign to me technically, but are they really?

Consider Yasujirō Ozu's films for example. He made films in Japan when the cultural exchanges of Japan with the rest of the world were extremely limited. His cinematic language was not influenced by the west. The west came to learn about his film long after he died and now when we consider his films, the core understanding of cinema isn't all that alien to the rest of the world. Every film industry, every great filmmaker, every cinema movement has core structures that are very similar. The art of cinema is universal through its frames, compositions, editing, and visual storytelling—where traditional language plays only secondary roles.

To test this, all one has to do is to see a foreign language cinema without subtitles and without sound.

The cover photo is edited in photoshop.