Jia Zhangke
Directing
Born 1970-05-24
Fenyang, Shanxi, China
108 credits
Asian Film Award for Best Director 1
Prince Claus Award 1
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 1
Carrosse d'or 1
Awards
Won 1 Asian Film Award for Best Director Award
Asian Film Award for Best Director 1 won
- — Best Director Won Still Life
Prince Claus Award 1 won
- — Prince Claus Award Won
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 1 won
- 2018 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Won
Carrosse d'or 1 won
- 2015 Carrosse d'or Won
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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.".
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Filmography
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Directing
24 credits
A Touch of Sin
Ash Is Purest White
Still Life
Mountains May Depart
Yulu
Visit
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Caught by the Tides
Pickpocket
The Condition of Dogs
24 City
The World
The Hedonists
Platform
I Wish I Knew
Unknown Pleasures
Mamma Dunhuang
Dong
Stories on Human Rights
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Torino Shadow
Remembrance
Smog Journeys
In Public
Producing
27 credits
A Touch of Sin
A Song for You
Mr. Tree
Ash Is Purest White
Still Life
Mountains May Depart
Neighbors
Yulu
Memoria
Life After Life
Caught by the Tides
Pickpocket
Memories Look at Me
White Building
Walking on the Wild Side
Half the Sky
24 City
A River Without Tears
Filipiñana
The Best is Yet to Come
Dead Pigs
One Night on the Wharf
Heaven and Hell
Still Born
Torino Shadow
Smog Journeys
Tracing Her Shadow
Writing
19 credits
A Touch of Sin
Ash Is Purest White
Still Life
Mountains May Depart
Visit
Caught by the Tides
Pickpocket
24 City
The World
The Hedonists
Platform
I Wish I Knew
Unknown Pleasures
Mamma Dunhuang
Dong
Torino Shadow
Remembrance
Smog Journeys
In Public
Acting
17 credits
Golden Horse Awards
A Touch of Sin
Black Dog
The Lychee Road
Citizen Kitano
Being Towards Death
The Continent
Art College 1994
Moonlight Madness
Everybody's Fine
Unknown Pleasures
Boundless
The Best is Yet to Come
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Mostly Sunny
About Cinema
Karmic Mahjong
Other credits
9 credits
Thirteen Talks
Crossroads with Luo Yonghao
The Sun Rises on Us All
Being Towards Death
Black Coal, Thin Ice
The Condition of Dogs
Dong
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