Jia Zhangke

Directing

1970-05-24 · Fenyang, Shanxi, China

Jia Zhangke (Chinese: 贾樟柯; pinyin: Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970; Fenyang) is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dean of the Vancouver Film School of Shanghai University. He graduated from the Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuan. Jia's early films, a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi, were made outside of China's state-run film bureaucracy, and therefore are considered "underground" films. Beginning in 2004, Jia's status in his own country rose when he was allowed to direct his fourth feature film, The World, with state approval. Jia's films have received critical praise and have been recognized internationally, notably winning the Venice Film Festival's top award Golden Lion for Still Life. He received the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the Carrosse d'Or lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, and an honorary award at the Visions du Réel in 2024. Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek hailed him as "one of the top directors in the world today.".

Filmography

Theaters

Filipiñana

2026 · Movie

Proudly Amateur

2026 · Movie

Torino Shadow

2026 · Movie

Being Towards Death

2026 · Movie

Jia Zhangke's Dance

2026 · Movie

Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke

2026 · Movie

Heaven and Hell

2025 · Movie

The Sun Rises on Us All

2025 · Movie

Mostly Sunny

2025 · Movie

Crossroads with Luo Yonghao

2025 · Series

The Lychee Road

2025 · Movie

Art College 1994

2025 · Movie

Moonlight Madness

2024 · Movie

Wheat Harvest

2024 · Movie

Caught by the Tides

2024 · Movie

A River Without Tears

2024 · Movie

Black Dog

2024 · Movie

Out of Jungle

2023 · Movie

The Best is Yet to Come

2023 · Movie

Jia's Talk

2022 · Series

不要回答

2022 · Series

Home

2022 · Movie

Peacock, Peacock

2022 · Movie

White Building

2021 · Movie

The Great Director

2021 · Movie

Memoria

2021 · Movie

Close-Up

2021 · Movie

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

2021 · Movie

Tomorrow Will Be Fine

2021 · Movie

Tracing Her Shadow

2021 · Movie

Keep Rolling

2020 · Movie

Citizen Kitano

2020 · Movie

A Song for You

2020 · Movie

Visit

2020 · Movie

The Calming

2020 · Movie

Neighbors

2019 · Movie

Number One

2019 · Movie

Half the Sky

2018 · Movie

Ash Is Purest White

2018 · Movie

Dead Pigs

2018 · Movie

Where Has Time Gone?

2017 · Movie

One Night on the Wharf

2017 · Movie

Revive

2017 · Movie

Still Born

2017 · Movie

Life After Life

2017 · Movie

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang

2016 · Movie

Thirteen Talks

2016 · Series

The Hedonists

2016 · Movie

Beautiful 2016

2016 · Movie

Everybody's Fine

2016 · Movie

Mountains May Depart

2015 · Movie

About Cinema

2015 · Movie

Smog Journeys

2015 · Movie

Our Time: A Decade of Daring

2015 · Movie

Chen Ling

2015 · Movie

Fidaï

2014 · Movie

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

2014 · Movie

Great Heat

2014 · Movie

The Continent

2014 · Movie

Black Coal, Thin Ice

2014 · Movie

Lao Pan's Day and Night

2014 · Movie

Boundless

2013 · Movie

A Touch of Sin

2013 · Movie

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013 · Movie

Forgetting to Know You

2013 · Movie

Memories Look at Me

2012 · Movie

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

2011 · Movie

3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke

2011 · Movie

Mr. Tree

2011 · Movie

Yulu

2011 · Movie

Cao Fei

2011 · Movie

Pan Shiyi

2011 · Movie

I Wish I Knew

2010 · Movie

Plastic City

2009 · Movie

Perfect Life

2009 · Movie

Remembrance

2008 · Movie

Stories on Human Rights

2008 · Movie

Black Breakfast

2008 · Movie

24 City

2008 · Movie

Cry Me a River

2008 · Movie

Useless

2008 · Movie

Our Ten Years

2007 · Movie

Xiao Jia Going Home

2007 · Movie

Dong

2006 · Movie

Still Life

2006 · Movie

Karmic Mahjong

2006 · Movie

Walking on the Wild Side

2006 · Movie

Made in China

2005 · Movie

This Moment

2005 · Movie

The World

2004 · Movie

All Tomorrow's Parties

2003 · Movie

My Camera Doesn’t Lie

2003 · Movie

Shiny Stars, Rusty Red

2003 · Movie

Unknown Pleasures

2002 · Movie

Overloaded Peking

2002 · Movie

Platform

2001 · Movie

In Public

2001 · Movie

The Condition of Dogs

2001 · Movie

Pickpocket

1997 · Movie

Du Du

1996 · Movie

Xiao Shan Going Home

1995 · Movie

One Day in Beijing

1994 · Movie

Golden Horse Awards

1962 · Series

Mamma Dunhuang

Movie

Pseudo Idealist

Movie

在那里

Movie

In the Qing Dynasty

Movie