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Jia Zhangke
Fenyang, Shanxi, China
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 t…
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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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2026
Filipiñana
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Proudly Amateur
Movie Director
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2026
Torino Shadow
Movie Director
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2026
Being Towards Death
Movie Self
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2026
Jia Zhangke's Dance
Movie Producer
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2026
Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke
Movie Self - filmmaker
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2025
Heaven and Hell
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
The Sun Rises on Us All
Movie Thanks
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2025
Mostly Sunny
Movie Dr. Cai
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2025
Crossroads with Luo Yonghao
TV show
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2025
The Lychee Road
Movie Zhong Shu Official
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2025
Art College 1994
Movie Gu Yongqing (voice)
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2024
Moonlight Madness
Movie Guest in room 622
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2024
Wheat Harvest
Movie Director
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2024
Caught by the Tides
Movie Director
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2024
A River Without Tears
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Black Dog
Movie Uncle Yao
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2023
Out of Jungle
Movie Director
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2023
The Best is Yet to Come
Movie Coal Mine Owner
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2022
Jia's Talk
TV show 自己
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2022
不要回答
TV show
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2022
Home
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Peacock, Peacock
Movie Director
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2021
White Building
Movie Co-Producer
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2021
The Great Director
Movie
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2021
Memoria
Movie Co-Producer
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2021
Close-Up
Movie Director
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2021
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Movie Self
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2021
Tomorrow Will Be Fine
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Tracing Her Shadow
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Keep Rolling
Movie
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2020
Citizen Kitano
Movie Self
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2020
A Song for You
Movie Producer
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2020
Visit
Movie
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2020
The Calming
Movie Producer
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2019
Neighbors
Movie Producer
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2019
Number One
Movie Supervising Producer
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2018
Half the Sky
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Ash Is Purest White
Movie Director
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2018
Dead Pigs
Movie Executive Producer
