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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…
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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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Jia Zhangke's Filmography
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Being Towards Death
as Self
No Poster
Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke
as Self - filmmaker
Mostly Sunny
as Dr. Cai
The Lychee Road
as Zhong Shu Official
Art College 1994
as Gu Yongqing (voice)
Moonlight Madness
as Guest in room 622
Black Dog
as Uncle Yao
The Best is Yet to Come
as Coal Mine Owner
The Great Director
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
as Self
Keep Rolling
Citizen Kitano
as Self
Visit
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
as Self
The Hedonists
Everybody's Fine
as (cameo)
About Cinema
as Self
No Poster
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
as Self
The Continent
as Su Mi's Uncle
Boundless
as Self
A Touch of Sin
as Distinguished Guest
Xiao Jia Going Home
as Himself
Karmic Mahjong
as Mobster
Made in China
as Self
My Camera Doesn’t Lie
as Jia Zhangke
Shiny Stars, Rusty Red
as Himself
Unknown Pleasures
as Man singing in street (uncredited)
No Poster
Overloaded Peking
as Himself
Xiao Shan Going Home
