Jia Zhangke Movies

A seventy-year-old veteran of the Algerian War of Independence speaks about his years of struggle as an underground soldier for the National...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu