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Jia Zhangke
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.".
As director
Jia Zhangke's Dance
Torino Shadow
Proudly Amateur
Caught by the Tides
Wheat Harvest
Out of Jungle
Peacock, Peacock
Close-Up
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Visit
Ash Is Purest White
Where Has Time Gone?
Revive
The Hedonists
Beautiful 2016
Mountains May Depart
Smog Journeys
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
Lao Pan's Day and Night
A Touch of Sin
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Yulu
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke
Cao Fei
Pan Shiyi
I Wish I Knew
24 City
Useless
Cry Me a River
As actor
Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke
Being Towards Death
Art College 1994
Mostly Sunny
The Lychee Road
Black Dog
Moonlight Madness
The Best is Yet to Come
The Great Director
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Visit
Citizen Kitano
Keep Rolling
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
Everybody's Fine
The Hedonists
About Cinema
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
The Continent
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Boundless
A Touch of Sin
Xiao Jia Going Home
Karmic Mahjong
Made in China
Shiny Stars, Rusty Red
My Camera Doesn’t Lie
Unknown Pleasures
Overloaded Peking
Xiao Shan Going Home