Jia Zhangke Movies

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.

Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies...

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. In...

Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.

When all four of his children cancel their yearly visits, a widower travels to the far corners of the country to see them and discovers the hidden...

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

Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous...

The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are...

In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to rewrite his life.

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...

A romantic comedy about an obscure screenwriter nearing her thirties and a frustrated musician who accidentally end up in a situation where they have...

A seventy-year-old veteran of the Algerian War of Independence speaks about his years of struggle as an underground soldier for the National...

Student film.

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....

The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about...

A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu