The most interesting part of Jia Zhangke’s experimental pandemic project “Caught by the Tides” is its concept: Sorting through over 20 years of unused archival film footage from the Chinese director’s ...

Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke is no stranger to capturing change. It’s an element at the beating heart of many of his works, both on the personal and national level. In his latest film, Caught by the ...

Jia Zhangke’s film stretches from 2001 to the covid era northern Chinese city of Datong, and tells the story of Qiao Qiao (Zhao Tao) who goes in search of her lover the unreliable Guao Bin (Zhubin Li) ...

Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke took the stage at the Venice Film Festival for a wide-ranging masterclass that spanned his career, his parallel work as a distributor, and his thoughts on the future of ...