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Born May 24, 1970 · 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.".

Jia Zhangke's Dance
2026

Caught by the Tides
2025

Wheat Harvest
2024

Out of Jungle
2023

Peacock, Peacock
2022

Close-Up
2021

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
2021

Visit
2020

The Bucket
2019

Ash Is Purest White
2018

Where Has Time Gone?
2017

Revive
2017

The Hedonists
2016

Beautiful 2016
2016

Mountains May Depart
2015

Smog Journeys
2015
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
2015
Lao Pan's Day and Night
2014

A Touch of Sin
2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke
2011

Yulu
2011
Pan Shiyi
2011
Cao Fei
2011

I Wish I Knew
2010

Remembrance
2008

Stories on Human Rights
2008

Black Breakfast
2008

24 City
2008

Cry Me a River
2008

Useless
2008

Our Ten Years
2007

Dong
2006

Still Life
2006
This Moment
2005

The World
2004

Unknown Pleasures
2002

Platform
2001

In Public
2001

The Condition of Dogs
2001

Pickpocket
1997
Du Du
1996

Xiao Shan Going Home
1995

One Day in Beijing
1994
In the Qing Dynasty
在那里
Untitled Jia Zhangke Film
Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke
2026

Mostly Sunny
2025

The Lychee Road
2025

Art College 1994
2025

Moonlight Madness
2024

Black Dog
2024

The Best is Yet to Come
2023

The Great Director
2021

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
2021

Keep Rolling
2020

Citizen Kitano
2020

Visit
2020

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
2016

The Hedonists
2016

Everybody's Fine
2016

About Cinema
2015
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
2015

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014

The Continent
2014

Boundless
2013

A Touch of Sin
2013

Xiao Jia Going Home
2007

Karmic Mahjong
2006

Made in China
2005

My Camera Doesn’t Lie
2003

Shiny Stars, Rusty Red
2003

Unknown Pleasures
2002
Overloaded Peking
2002

Xiao Shan Going Home
1995