Jia Zhangke – MRQE

Jiang hu er nv

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.

Feng liu yi dai

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In early 2000s China, Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin share a passionate but fragile love. When Guao Bin disappears to try his luck in another province, Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him.

Shijie

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs.

Yi zhi you dao hai shui bian lan

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country’s most esteemed writers.

Mountains May Depart

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

A Touch of Sin

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Hai shang chuan qi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Er shi si cheng ji

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

Wuyong

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Observations of three varied corners of Chinas garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called Useless (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.

Sanxia haoren

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.