Jia Zhangke
- Directing
- May 24, 1970 · Fenyang, Shanxi, China
Biography
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.".
Known for
Filmography
- Filipiñana · Executive producer
- Proudly Amateur · Director
- Torino Shadow · Director, Writer
- Being Towards Death · Self, Thanks
- Jia Zhangke's Dance · Producer, Director
- Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke · Self
- Heaven and Hell · Executive producer
- The Sun Rises on Us All · Thanks
- Mostly Sunny · Dr. Cai
- Crossroads with Luo Yonghao
- The Lychee Road · Zhong Shu Official
- Art College 1994 · Gu Yongqing (Voice)
- Moonlight Madness · Guest in room 622, Presenter
- Wheat Harvest · Director
- Caught by the Tides · Director, Writer
- A River Without Tears · Executive producer
- Black Dog · Uncle Yao
- Out of Jungle · Director
- The Best is Yet to Come · Coal Mine Owner, Producer
- Jia's Talk · 自己, Creator
- 不要回答
- Home · Executive producer
- Peacock, Peacock · Director
- White Building · Co-producer
- The Great Director
- Memoria · Co-producer
- Close-Up · Director
- Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue · Self, Director
- Tomorrow Will Be Fine · Executive producer
- Tracing Her Shadow · Executive producer
- Keep Rolling
- Citizen Kitano · Self
- A Song for You · Producer, Executive producer
- Visit · Writer, Director
- The Calming · Producer, Executive producer
- Neighbors · Producer
- Number One · Supervising Producer, Producer
- Half the Sky · Executive producer
- Ash Is Purest White · Director, Executive producer
- Dead Pigs · Executive producer, Producer
- Where Has Time Gone? · Director, Writer
- One Night on the Wharf · Producer
- Revive · Director, Writer
- Life After Life · Executive producer, Producer
- Still Born · Producer
- Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang · Self
- Thirteen Talks
- The Hedonists · Director, Writer
- Beautiful 2016 · Director
- Everybody's Fine · (cameo)
- Mountains May Depart · Director, Screenplay
- About Cinema · Self
- K · Producer
- Smog Journeys · Director, Writer
- Our Time: A Decade of Daring · Director
- Chen Ling · Producer
- Fidaï · Producer
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema · Self
- Great Heat · Executive producer
- The Continent · Su Mi's Uncle
- Black Coal, Thin Ice · Thanks
- Lao Pan's Day and Night · Director
- Boundless · Self
- A Touch of Sin · Distinguished Guest, Director
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded · Director
- Forgetting to Know You · Producer
- Memories Look at Me · Producer
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films · Director
- 3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke · Director
- Mr. Tree · Executive producer, Producer
- Yulu · Producer, Director
- Cao Fei · Director
- Pan Shiyi · Director
- I Wish I Knew · Screenplay, Director
- Plastic City · Producer
- Perfect Life · Co-producer
- Remembrance · Director, Writer
- Stories on Human Rights · Director
- Black Breakfast · Director, Editing
- 24 City · Director, Writer