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Jia Zhangke (Chinese: 贾樟柯; pinyin: Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) is a renowned Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer.
Zhangke Jia is a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" of Chinese directors. He has made films such as A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart and Ash Is Purest White, and has won many awards and nominations.
Apr 19, 2024 · The Chinese indie director talks about his film "Caught by the Tides", which blends 20 years of footage and experiments with AI, at the Swiss doc festival Visions du Réel. He also shares his views on censorship, independent filmmaking and respecting the audience.
May 18, 2024 · Zhao Tao stars in Jia Zhangke's epic, lyrical "Caught by the Tides" as a woman searching for a lost lover in a defining portrait of modern China.
May 18, 2024 · Across his 25-year career, Jia Zhangke has become the de facto face of independent-minded Chinese cinema — and the Cannes Film Festival has arguably been the most important institution to...
May 26, 2021 · With each new film, be it fiction or documentary, Jia Zhangke reasserts his status as one of the keenest chroniclers of China’s unprecedented—and unending—transformation. His latest, Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, serves as a reminder that he is not alone on his mission.
By contrast to this rigorously controlled zone, filled with more than one hundred scale models of the world’s most famous buildings, the writer-director’s three previous features framed the bewildering social landscape created by the world’s fastest-growing economy.
