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Jia Zhangke (Chinese: 贾樟柯, born 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi, China) is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan.
Jia's early films, a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi, were made outside of China's state-run film bureaucracy, and therefore are considered "underground" films. Beginning in 2004, Jia's status in his own country was raised when he was allowed to direct his fourth feature film, The World, with state approval.
Jia's films have received critical praise and have been recognized internationally, notably winning the Venice Film Festival's top award for Still Life. He has been described by critics and film directors as being perhaps "the most important filmmaker working in the world today."
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01 August 1997
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
24 July 2014
Three men living in the Eastern most island of China go on a road trip to the Western most end of the country, and facing crises of love, friendship, and faith on their journey to the West.
16 June 2024
Although Wu You (Huang Xiaoming) has reached an advanced age, his IQ and cognitive level still remain at the level of a child.
01 April 2025
The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his son for seven years.
06 June 2002
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
16 November 2006
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
09 September 2011
Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality.
01 October 2014
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world.
01 October 2020
In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs – young Ngawang leaves behind a nomadic existence on the Tibetan plateau for big city Lhasa nightclubs.
26 April 2006
Chen Chuan (Francis Ng) is a simple man who seems to be cursed with bad luck all the time. Convinced by a blind fortune teller that he must eliminate the "villain" that is bringing him the ills, Chen vows to kill the person responsible for his misfortunes.
29 August 2001
China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
03 December 2020
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut.
24 March 2023
In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
14 June 2024
On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail.
01 June 2017
Thousands of years in the future, a laborer whose job is to recover artifacts of the past tries to free herself from a dystopian caste system.
04 October 2013
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
05 June 2021
In Close-Up, Jia explores the counterpart to the wide shot. Four elevated surveillance cameras scan a busy traffic intersection, capturing the steady stream of cars, bikes and pedestrians that cross it.
21 September 2018
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight.
27 September 2008
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.
30 September 2021
One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’.
06 December 2024
What is your sense of homesickness? Is it the food of my hometown, the playmates of my childhood, or the endless wheat field at the entrance of the village? The "Kelin AI Director Co-creation Plan" has been launched, and the film "Wheat Harvest" directed by Jia Zhangke has officially been released! Let's see the wisdom and thinking of AI in the future world in the short film.
23 October 2008
Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.
24 September 2024
Hu Dengjie travels thousands of miles in search of his daughter's best friend, Ji Hong, to uncover the truth about his daughter's death.
15 September 2015
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke.
28 April 2001
A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town.
22 November 2024
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
29 September 2007
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly.
22 December 2021
SAMNANG, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
23 October 2008
20 short films about human rights.
18 February 2023
In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world.
01 January 2021
Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
20 October 2014
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators.
02 July 2010
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
16 October 2020
Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV star, the street kid from Tokyo close to the Yakuza, and the political satirist who blasted taboos!
Can we dream of a better guide to introduce us to the cultural history of Japan?
06 February 2008
Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called ‘Useless’ (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.
12 September 2019
In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to rewrite his life.
24 March 2006
Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province.
28 December 2024
When gold medal lawyer Hu Gongping was having a secret meeting with his lover She Xiaoman, a body suddenly fell from the sky in the room.
28 August 2013
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
30 January 2009
Perfect Life, the second feature by Emily Tang (Tang Xiaobai), at first revolves around Li Yueying, a young woman in the cold north-east of China.
01 May 2020
Jia Zhangke is starring in his first lead role, appearing as an artist facing a midlife crisis in Cheng Er's Pseudo Idealist.
31 December 2003
In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to "Prosperity Camp" for reeducation.
22 January 2015
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution.
23 March 2016
The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search for employment elsewhere.
01 June 2017
A hare is let loose in the forest, a dog gives chase and the boy tears after them, his father in tentative pursuit.
30 October 2015
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
01 January 2011
The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business and the arts.
01 January 2002
A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke anu
21 April 2020
The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space.
21 February 2020
A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she observes and engages with her ever-changing environs while seeking an inner calm.
02 April 2021
A romantic comedy about an obscure screenwriter nearing her thirties and a frustrated musician who accidentally end up in a situation where they have to live together.
02 November 2013
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world of film.
14 October 2017
Han Dong adapts his own 1998 novel, about a group of young poets accidentally caught up in an inexplicable dispute with local hoodlums and security guards.
15 June 2017
Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
06 March 2022
Yi Yi, a white-collar worker in a lattice room, and Ah Juan, a female worker in a garment factory, are separated by a wall in a Dongguan factory.
01 May 2005
A documentary about the making of Jia Zhangke's film the World.
01 January 2007
Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life (2006).
01 January 2003
Meet Wang Yuelun, a young and ambitious Chinese who dreams of becoming a film director. Filmmaker Elisabeth O.
