Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke is a director, born 1970.
Jia Zhangke is a Chinese filmmaker. Most known for his "Hometown Trilogy": Xiao Wu (1998), Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002), who rose his career as an underground filmmaker to a leading figure of Chinese Cinema Sixth Generation. Jia's work is distinctive for his critical engagement with social issues concerning contemporary China, his intentional blurring of documentary and fiction film, and his attention to a realist aesthetic.
Movies (26)
- Unknown Pleasures (2002)
- Unknown Pleasures (2002)
- Black Dog (2024)
- Caught by the Tides (2025)
- A Touch of Sin (2013)
- A Touch of Sin (2013)
- Ash Is Purest White (2018)
- The Lychee Road (2025)
- The Continent (2014)
- Being Towards Death (2026)
- Still Life (2006)
- Pickpocket (1997)
- Mountains May Depart (2015)
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
- Platform (2001)
- 24 City (2008)
- Art College 1994 (2025)
- I Wish I Knew (2010)
- Moonlight Madness (2024)
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011)
- Everybody's Fine (2016)
- The Best is Yet to Come (2023)
- Boundless (2013)
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
- Mostly Sunny (2025)
- The World (2004)