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Jia Zhang-ke

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

V.O.: Yi ge cun zhuang de wen xue
Chin. 2020. Documentary by Jia Zhang-ke. The filmmaker shares the memories of three well-known Chinese authors for a literary festival in his native province.
Runtime: 112 min.

Ash Is Purest White

V.O.: Jiang Hu Er Nv
Chin. 2018. Chronicle by Jia Zhang-ke with Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Feng Xiaogang. After serving five years in prison in place of her gangster spouse, a miner's daughter sets out to find him, in a changing China.
Runtime: 141 min.

Mountains May Depart

V.O.: Shan He Gu Ren
Chin. 2015. Drama by Jia Zhang-ke with Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jingdong. Over a quarter of a century, in a society in full mutation, the hopes and disillusions of a young Chinese woman, her child, and the two men who fight for her heart.
Runtime: 126 min.

A Touch of Sin

V.O.: Tian zhu ding
Chin. 2013. Mores drama by Jia Zhang-ke with Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao. In China, three men and one woman from four different provinces defend themselves in their own ways against the nouveau riche ruling their country.
Runtime: 133 min.

I Wish I Knew, un roman de Shanghai

V.O.: Hai Shang Chuan Qi
Chin. 2010. Documentary by Jia Zhang-ke. Seven decades of Shanghai's life, from the era of international concessions to preparations for the 2010 World Expo.
Runtime: 118 min.
Chin. 2010. Documentary by Jia Zhang-ke.

Still Life

V.O.: Sanxia Haoren
Chin. 2006. Social drama by Jia Zhang-ke with Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin. A mine worker and a nurse try to find their respective spouses in a town about to be flooded by the waters of a huge dam.
Runtime: 108 min.

The World

V.O.: Shijie
Chin. 2004. Drama by Jia Zhang-ke with Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jing Jue. A young couple come from a northern province to work at a Beijing theme park and experience romantic troubles.
Runtime: 140 min.

Unknown Pleasures

V.O.: Ren Xiao Yao
Chin. 2002. Moral study by Jia Zhang-ke with Wu Qiong, Zhao Wei Wei, Zhao Tao. In an industrial city in northern China, two carefree young men plan a robbery to escape their boredom.
Runtime: 113 min.

Platform

V.O.: Zhantai
Chin. 2000. Chronicle by Jia Zhang-ke with Wang Hong-wei, Yang Tian-yi, Zhao Tao. In China, from 1979 to 1989, the members of a provincial theatre company try to adapt to the Westernization of their country.
Runtime: 154 min.

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