Jia Zhangke Movies

Samnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect...

The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search for employment elsewhere.

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.

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

A woman travels from southern China to Turin, Italy, to see her husband. But an unexpected departure leaves her to find herself again, and to find...

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

Hu Dengjie travels thousands of miles in search of his daughter's best friend, Ji Hong, to uncover the truth about his daughter's death. Along the...

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

A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town. A lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired...

a documentary series created by Jia Zhangke, with 10 short films about 10 leading figures in various industries in China, exploring the stories of...

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

A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is...

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

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....

Jia Zhangke's second collaboration with Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation model by Doubao, after "Jia Zhangke's Dance". Made after his trip to...

One summer day in Beijing, a female college student named Dudu is suddenly overcome by an inexplicable restlessness during a photo shoot. At a blind...

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...

The camera gazes at the crowd in Tiananmen Square. Accompanied by the music of Qigong exercises, the lives passing to and fro seem imbued with an...

A fugitive and a street vendor form an unexpected, wordless bond after a pregnant woman is hit by a car in a chance encounter amid the indifferent...