From 12 to 30 April 2024 Cinémathèque suisse is showing a program dedicated to the Chinese film director JIA ZHANGKE.
Works such as '24 City', 'Still Life' and 'Unknown Pleasures' are part of this comprehensive retrospective, which was created in cooperation with the "Visions du Réel à Nyon" festival. The filmmaker will also be present in Lausanne on April 17.
Jia Zhangke (born 24 May 1970 in Shanxi Province, China) is a Chinese-language 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 is the only Chinese who was awarded the Carrosse d'Or lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival. (Text: Wikipedia)
Photo: 'Still Life', Hong Kong, China · 2006 · 112'
Location: Kino Capitole, Lausanne
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