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.

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

Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A...

A hare is let loose in the forest, a dog gives chase and the boy tears after them, his father in tentative pursuit. Minutes pass, the forest falls...

Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his...

An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two...

In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to...

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

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

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...

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

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

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the...

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...

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international...

What gifts would your parents prepare when your Chinese New Year visit comes to an end? A film about the taste of home shot on iPhone XS.

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...

Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.

The closing film for 2021's Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.