Jia Zhangke Movies

The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are...

In Close-Up, Jia explores the counterpart to the wide shot. Four elevated surveillance cameras scan a busy traffic intersection, capturing the steady...

From the music of Filipino composer Teresa Barrozo, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke crafts a story that conveys the architectonics of modernization and...

A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu

What is your sense of homesickness? Is it the food of my hometown, the playmates of my childhood, or the endless wheat field at the entrance of the...

Student film.

A short documentary on tourists in Tiananmen Square.

A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is...

A seventy-year-old veteran of the Algerian War of Independence speaks about his years of struggle as an underground soldier for the National...