Jia Zhangke
Known for: Directing
Born: May 24, 1970
Place of birth: 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.".
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Filmography
103 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Filipiñana
2026
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Proudly Amateur
2026
2.0
Torino Shadow
2026
5.8
Being Towards Death
2026
1.0
Jia Zhangke's Dance
2026NR
Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke
2026
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Heaven and Hell
2025
5.0
The Sun Rises on Us All
2025
4.8
Mostly Sunny
2025
10.0
Crossroads with Luo Yonghao
2025
7.1
The Lychee Road
2025
6.6
Art College 1994
2025
5.0
Moonlight Madness
2024
1.0
Wheat Harvest
2024
6.8
Caught by the Tides
2024
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A River Without Tears
2024
7.1
Black Dog
2024
4.8
Out of Jungle
2023
6.1
The Best is Yet to Come
2023
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Jia's Talk
2022
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不要回答
2022
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Home
2022
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Peacock, Peacock
2022
6.2
White Building
2021
6.0
The Great Director
2021
6.0
Memoria
2021
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Close-Up
2021
6.8
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
2021
1.7
Tomorrow Will Be Fine
2021
6.6
Tracing Her Shadow
2021
8.0
Keep Rolling
2020
7.3
Citizen Kitano
2020
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A Song for You
2020
5.2
Visit
2020
5.8
The Calming
2020
4.5
Neighbors
2019
5.0
Number One
2019
10.0
Half the Sky
2018
6.9
Ash Is Purest White
2018
6.7
Dead Pigs
2018
5.5
Where Has Time Gone?
2017
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One Night on the Wharf
2017
5.0
Revive
2017
6.3
Life After Life
2017
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Still Born
2017
6.9
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
2016
8.8
Thirteen Talks
2016
7.2
The Hedonists
2016
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Beautiful 2016
2016
5.5
Everybody's Fine
2016
6.9
Mountains May Depart
2015
8.2
About Cinema
20155.4
K
2015
5.6
Smog Journeys
2015NR
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
2015NR
Chen Ling
2015
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Fidaï
2014
7.1
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
7.0
Great Heat
2014
6.2
The Continent
2014
6.5
Black Coal, Thin Ice
2014NR
Lao Pan's Day and Night
2014
7.7
Boundless
2013
7.2
A Touch of Sin
2013
5.0
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
6.0
Forgetting to Know You
2013
7.0
Memories Look at Me
2012
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011NR
3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke
2011
7.2
Mr. Tree
2011
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Yulu
2011NR
Cao Fei
2011NR
Pan Shiyi
2011
6.6
I Wish I Knew
2010
3.9
Plastic City
2009NR
Perfect Life
2009
8.0
Remembrance
2008
2.2
Stories on Human Rights
2008
5.7
Black Breakfast
2008
7.0
24 City
2008
6.0
Cry Me a River
2008
6.6
Useless
2008
6.0
Our Ten Years
2007
3.0
Xiao Jia Going Home
2007
5.6
Dong
2006
7.2
Still Life
2006
5.0
Karmic Mahjong
2006
6.5
Walking on the Wild Side
2006
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Made in China
2005NR
This Moment
2005
7.0
The World
2004
6.1
All Tomorrow's Parties
2003
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My Camera Doesn’t Lie
2003
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Shiny Stars, Rusty Red
2003
6.5
Unknown Pleasures
2002NR
Overloaded Peking
2002
7.1
Platform
2001
6.2
In Public
2001
5.4
The Condition of Dogs
2001
7.2
Pickpocket
1997NR
Du Du
1996
5.9
Xiao Shan Going Home
1995
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One Day in Beijing
1994
9.0
Golden Horse Awards
1962
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Pseudo Idealist
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In the Qing Dynasty
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在那里
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Mamma Dunhuang
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