Cast: Zhao Tao

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Wang Hongwei · Zhao Tao · Liang Jingdong · Tian Yi Yang

Plot Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio-economic changes...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Chen Taisheng · Jing Jue · Jiang Zhong-Wei

Plot A young dancer and her security guard boyfriend work at Beijing’s Window to the World theme park, and their troubled romance drives the narrative. The latest triumph from Jia Zhang-Ke...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Wei Wei Zhao · Qiong Wu · Zhao Tao · Ru Bai

Plot Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Joan Chen · Lü Liping · Chen Jianbin · Zhao Tao

Plot Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Sanming Han · Zhou Lan · Lizhen Ma

Plot Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet...

Direction Walter Salles

Cast Jia Zhangke · Zhao Tao · Wang Hongwei · Han Sanming

Plot The portrait of a young Chinese director who has become one of the most important filmmakers of our time. The documentary, directed by Walter Salles, dwells on the question of...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Jiang Wu · Vivien Li · Lanshan Luo · Wang Baoqiang

Plot An angry miner revolts against the corruption of his village leaders. A migrant worker at home for the New Year discovers the infinite possibilities a firearm can offer. A pretty...

Direction Andrea Segre

Cast Zhao Tao · Rade Serbedzija · Marco Paolini · Roberto Citran

Plot Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Zhang Yi · Liang Jingdong · Dong Zijian

Plot China, at the end of 1999. Tao, a young woman from Fenyang, is courted by her two childhood friends, Zang and Lianzi. Zang, owner of a gas station, is destined...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Liao Fan · Xu Zheng · Casper Liang

Plot A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Wang Hongwei · Zhao Tao

Plot An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers,...

Direction Naomi Kawase · Kaori Momoi · Toyoko Yamasaki · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Cast Kaori Momoi · Zhao Tao · Ana Torrent

Plot This is a film project dedicated to the victims of and the affected areas by the Tohoku Earthquake that occured on March 3rd, 2011. 21 filmmakers/artists around the world voluntarily...

Direction Isaac Julien

Cast Maggie Cheung · Fagen Gong · Ping Wang · Benedict Wong

Plot Inspired by the drowning of 23 Chinese undocumented cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay (northwest England). Mazu, goddess of the sea, floats over the tragedy.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Liang Jingdong

Plot 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. While the two never speak...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Zhang Wei

Plot Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Liang Jingdong

Plot 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. 'Smog Journeys' traces...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Jindong Liang

Plot 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...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Li Zhubin · Jianlin Pan · Lan Zhou

Plot In early 2000s China, Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin share a passionate but fragile love. When Guao Bin disappears to try his luck in another province, Qiao Qiao decides to...

Direction Madhur Bhandarkar · Aleksey Fedorchenko · Jia Zhangke · Jahmil X.T. Qubeka

Cast Rodrigo Bolzan · Parvin Dabas · Master Devrath · Jonita Doda

Plot Segment "Mumbai Mist". Madhur Bhandarkar. Screenplay: Madhur Bhandarkar Segment "Breathing". Aleksey Fedorchenko. Screenplay: Lidia Kanashova Segment "Revive". Zhangke Jia. Screenplay: Zhangke Jia Segment "Stillborn". Jahmil X.T. Qubeka. Screenplay: Jahmil X.T....

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Zhao Tao · Yu Entai

Plot Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.