Zhao Tao Movies
- 2006
Still Life
Still Life7.1812006HD
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 thei...
- 2004
The World
The World6.8282004HD
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 c...
- 2008
24 City
24 City7.12008HD
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apar...
- 2002
Unknown Pleasures
Unknown Pleasures6.32002HD
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young...
- 2001
Platform
Platform6.92001HD
China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
- 2015
Mountains May Depart
Mountains May Depart6.9132015HD
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
- 2013
A Touch of Sin
A Touch of Sin7.2112013HD
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- 2008
Cry Me a River
Cry Me a River5.62008HD
An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples...
- 2008
Remembrance
Remembrance82008HD
Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.
- 2010
Ten Thousand Waves
Ten Thousand Waves7.52010HD
TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient past and...
- 2007
Our Ten Years
Our Ten Years62007HD
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the...
- 2014
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang6.92014HD
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the...
- 2015
Smog Journeys
Smog Journeys5.72015HD
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous...
- 2011
3.11 A Sense of Home
3.11 A Sense of Home6.52011HD
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
- 2017
Where Has Time Gone?
Where Has Time Gone?5.52017HD
A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relat...
- 2018
Ash Is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White6.8622018HD
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release...
- 2017
Revive
Revive02017HD
Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countrie...
- 2018
An Elephant Sitting Still
An Elephant Sitting Still7.7332018HD
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for th...
- 2011
Shun Li and the Poet
Shun Li and the Poet7.12011HD
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in...
- 2010
I Wish I Knew
I Wish I Knew7.12010HD
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.