Direction: Jia Zhangke

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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 sweep across the mainland. The film commences in 1979 with...

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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 is about people who aren't sure where they belong in...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Wang Hongwei · Hao Hongjian · Zuo Baiato · Ma Jinrei

Synopsis Little pocket thief Wu never got away from the streets like his friends did. He realises that he is alone, as his old buddy doesn't invite him for his wedding. When he falls in love with a hooker he is...

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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 on the bank of the Yangtze River and vow to...

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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 receptionist at a sauna is pushed to the limit when...

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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 for a promising future, whereas Liang works in a coal...

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

Synopsis 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 go looking for him.

Direction Jia Zhangke

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

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

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Sanming Han · Jindong Liang · Yuan Wenqian

Synopsis Jia Zhangke brings to this edition of the Beautiful series The Hedonists, an engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Liu Xiaodong

Synopsis Here's DONG the first half of Jia Zhang-ke's Three Gorges Dam project alongside with STILL LIFE. Unfortunately I don't have the second feature film to rip but I can tell you that the misteries hidden in some of their corners...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Synopsis Three portraits of clothing: people who make them and people who wear them... A hot and humid day in Canton. Amid the thunderous noise of sewing machines, women work quietly under fluorescent lamps in a garment factory. The clothes they...

Direction Walter Salles · Marina Abramovic · Hany Abu-Assad · Armagan Ballantyne

Cast Svetlana Ustinova · Yelena Anisimova · Arseniy Gevorkyan · Mariya Shalayeva

Synopsis The film comprises twenty two 3 minute shorts directed by international filmmakers to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They are inspired by six themes: Culture, Development, Dignity and Justice, Environment, Gender & Participation. Stories...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Synopsis 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.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Synopsis This short by Zhang Ke is, in a way, a distillation of his usual concerns and aesthetic sensibilities. It has no dialogue, no acting, no story. It starts with documentations of working class transportation (trains, buses), then moves on to...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Duan Huifang · Jia Pingwa · Yu Hua · Liang Hong

Synopsis Prominent Chinese writers and scholars gather in a village in Shanxi, a province of China and the hometown of Jia Zhang-Ke. This starts an 18-chapter symphony about Chinese society since 1949. Premiere: Berlin Film Festival 2020.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Wang Hongwei · Zhao Tao

Synopsis 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, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth...

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Synopsis 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Jia Zhangke · Yirui Lian · Casper Liang

Synopsis In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the...