Jia Zhangke
Biography
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.".
Acting (26 movies)
The Great Director
2021
Art College 1994
2025
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
2014
The Continent
2014
Karmic Mahjong
2006
Boundless
2013
Black Dog
2024
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
About Cinema
2015
A Touch of Sin
2013
Xiao Jia Going Home
2007
Everybody's Fine
2016
Unknown Pleasures
2002
Mostly Sunny
2025
Made in China
2005
The Best is Yet to Come
2023
Shiny Stars, Rusty Red
2003
Visit
2020
Citizen Kitano
2020
The Hedonists
2016
Keep Rolling
2020
My Camera Doesn’t Lie
2003
Moonlight Madness
2024
Xiao Shan Going Home
1995
The Lychee Road
2025
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
2021
Directing (45 movies)
Still Life
2006
The World
2004
24 City
2008
Peacock, Peacock
2022
Unknown Pleasures
2002
Platform
2001
Pickpocket
1997
I Wish I Knew
2010
Dong
2006
Useless
2008
Close-Up
2021
A Touch of Sin
2013
Cry Me a River
2008
In Public
2001
Out of Jungle
2023
The Condition of Dogs
2001
Our Ten Years
2007
Xiao Shan Going Home
1995
Yulu
2011
Remembrance
2008
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Mountains May Depart
2015
The Bucket
2019
Smog Journeys
2015
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
The Hedonists
2016
Stories on Human Rights
2008
Lao Pan's Day and Night
2014
Ash Is Purest White
2018
This Moment
2005
Where Has Time Gone?
2017
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
2015
One Day in Beijing
1994
3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke
2011
Cao Fei
2011
Pan Shiyi
2011
Du Du
1996
Caught by the Tides
2024
Revive
2017
Black Breakfast
2008
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
2021
Visit
2020
Wheat Harvest
2024
Beautiful 2016
2016
Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Jia Zhang-ke
2013
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Xiao Shan Going Home | 1995 | Writer |
| Pickpocket | 1997 | Writer |
| Pickpocket | 1997 | Producer |
| In Public | 2001 | Writer |
| Platform | 2001 | Writer |
| Unknown Pleasures | 2002 | Writer |
| All Tomorrow's Parties | 2003 | Producer |
| The World | 2004 | Writer |
| Walking on the Wild Side | 2006 | Producer |
| Still Life | 2006 | Screenplay |
| Dong | 2006 | Writer |
| Our Ten Years | 2007 | Writer |
| Cry Me a River | 2008 | Writer |
| 24 City | 2008 | Writer |
| 24 City | 2008 | Producer |
| Remembrance | 2008 | Writer |
| Plastic City | 2009 | Producer |
| I Wish I Knew | 2010 | Screenplay |
| Yulu | 2011 | Producer |
| Yulu | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Mr. Tree | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Mr. Tree | 2011 | Producer |
| Memories Look at Me | 2012 | Producer |
| Forgetting to Know You | 2013 | Producer |
| A Touch of Sin | 2013 | Writer |
| A Touch of Sin | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| Great Heat | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Fidaï | 2014 | Producer |
| Chen Ling | 2015 | Producer |
| Smog Journeys | 2015 | Writer |
| Smog Journeys | 2015 | Producer |
| K | 2015 | Producer |
| Mountains May Depart | 2015 | Screenplay |
| Mountains May Depart | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| The Hedonists | 2016 | Writer |
| Life After Life | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Still Born | 2017 | Producer |
| Life After Life | 2017 | Producer |
| Revive | 2017 | Writer |
| One Night on the Wharf | 2017 | Producer |
| Where Has Time Gone? | 2017 | Writer |
| Where Has Time Gone? | 2017 | Producer |
| Dead Pigs | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Dead Pigs | 2018 | Producer |
| Ash Is Purest White | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Ash Is Purest White | 2018 | Writer |
| Half the Sky | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Number One | 2019 | Producer |
| Neighbors | 2019 | Producer |
| The Calming | 2020 | Producer |
| The Calming | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Visit | 2020 | Writer |
| A Song for You | 2020 | Producer |
| A Song for You | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Tracing Her Shadow | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Tomorrow Will Be Fine | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue | 2021 | Writer |
| Home | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| The Best is Yet to Come | 2023 | Producer |
| The Best is Yet to Come | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| A River Without Tears | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Caught by the Tides | 2024 | Writer |
| Caught by the Tides | 2024 | Executive Producer |