Jia Zhang-ke

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 the troupe performing numbers idolizing Mao Zedong, ending in the '80s when the shows reflect the strong Western influences pervading China, covering a decade in which China saw tremendous changes. (imdb)

A harrowing account of disillusioned young people living in China. (New Yorker Films)

Acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships and desperate dreams of the twenty-somethings from China's remote Provinces who come to live and work at Beijing's World Park. (Zeitgeist Films)

Little pocket thief Wu never got away from the streets like his friends did. He realises that he is alone... (imdb)

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... (imdb)

The film begins with large scale industrial manufacture, in a clothing factory in Zhuhai city, Guangdong. It then moves to Guangzhou and Paris, focusing on Ma Ke, an artist who rejects "fashion" in her pursuit of high-concept clothing design. The final section returns to Jia's hometown Fenyang, and looks at an almost obsolete small-town tailor shop functioning in a landscape being devoured by 19th century-style coal mining. (www.viff.org)

This documentary follows the painter Liu Xiaodong's latest project. Liu is painting 12 peasants from the Sanxia (Three Gorge) region and 12 models in Bangkok. The common feature of those two seemingly very different groups of people is their life's dependence on the river running around their hometown. This documentary was shot at the same time as director Jia Zhangke's feature film San Xia Hao Ren (Still Life).

24 City tells a number of stories about the deep-rooted social revolution going on in China today. It is set in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, in a luxury apartment complex called 24 City being built on the site of Factory 420, a former airplane engine plant. (www.viff.org)

Jia's In Public starts as a distant echo to his groundbreaking Xiao Wu (1997): in a train station. Yet, instead of following the evolutions of his central character in a variety of public and private spaces in which he seems to "fit" less and less, Jia assembled 30 shots, recorded over a period of 45 days, of anonymous passers-by, travelers, railroad and bus workers, in and around the small mining town of Datung, in Inner Mongolia. (sensesofcinema)

Under Jia Zhangke's precisely controlled camera, a ten-year reunion of four classmates in Suzhou, China, modulates imperceptibly from gentle nostalgia--they were poets in university, and now talk investments--to something deeper and fundamentally disturbing. Even Suzhou's Song dynasty canals weep rain for them. (viff.org)

The movie describes the process by which a young man coming to Beijing from Kanan looking for a better life loses his hopes and decides to go back... (KG)

A short film, ten years, two women, and one word

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. (imdb)

The film revolves around four threads set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China, ranging from the bustling southern metropolis of Guangzhou to the more rural townships in Zhangke's home province of Shanxi. (imdb)

Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion. (imdb)

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 two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. (imdb)

China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar... From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society changing at breakneck speed. (imdb)

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. (imdb)

A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017. (imdb)

Seventy short films about cinema and its future. (imdb)

An engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work. (imdb)

Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.

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 book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only

A Chinese woman lives to herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.

A short film inspired by a piece of music by Teresa Barrozo.