Jia Zhangke Movies

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

Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV...

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...

A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".

The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business and the arts. The protagonists...

From the music of Filipino composer Teresa Barrozo, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke crafts a story that conveys the architectonics of modernization and...

Young Chinese parents Chen Xuesong and Cai Weihang find their marriage eroding as they deal with financial troubles, jealousy and constant bickering....

China's first new media (cell phone) movie, including "There" (Jia Zhangke, director, later the same), "A Moment of Silence" (Wang Xiaoshuai),...

A short documentary on tourists in Tiananmen Square.

Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the...

Meet Wang Yuelun, a young and ambitious Chinese who dreams of becoming a film director. Filmmaker Elisabeth O. Sjaastad follows an eventful year in...

In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs – young Ngawang leaves behind a nomadic...

A documentary about the making of Jia Zhangke's film the World.

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice...

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...

Fang comes back to her parents’ home in Nanjing, to spend some time with them. During her stay, her elder brother’s family comes for a...

The story mainly tells the story of Zhang Mingliang and Bai Jing, a pair of ordinary people born in the 1970s . After they got married in 1998, some...

Three years ago, a Weibo posted by Pan Shiyi brought PM2.5 into the public eye.In the past three years, he has never stopped paying attention to air...

In Close-Up, Jia explores the counterpart to the wide shot. Four elevated surveillance cameras scan a busy traffic intersection, capturing the steady...