Jia Zhangke

Known for DirectingBorn 1970-05-24 (age 56)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.".Read more

Movies & web series

Crossroads with Luo Yonghao

Half the Sky

Thirteen Talks

Golden Horse Awards

About Cinema

Keep Rolling

Remembrance

Boundless

Citizen Kitano

The Lychee Road

Black Dog

The Hedonists

A Touch of Sin

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

Mr. Tree

Being Towards Death

Still Life

Pickpocket

Great Heat

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

Memories Look at Me

Mountains May Depart

24 City

Platform

Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang

Ash Is Purest White

The World

Tracing Her Shadow

Dead Pigs

I Wish I Knew

Useless

Black Coal, Thin Ice

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

White Building

Walking on the Wild Side

Unknown Pleasures

Life After Life

The Continent

The Best is Yet to Come

Art College 1994

The Great Director

Memoria

All Tomorrow's Parties

In Public

Forgetting to Know You

Our Ten Years

The Calming