Ash Is Purest White / Jiang hu er nü (2018)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang, Yi'nan Diao, Xiaogang Feng
Director: Zhangke Jia
24 City / Er shi si cheng ji (2008)
Drama
Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats. Scenes of factory operations, of the workforce, and of buildings stripped bare and then razed, are inter-cut with workers who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s telling their stories – about the factory, which manufactured military aircraft, and about their work and their lives. A middle-aged man visits his mentor, now elderly; a woman talks of being a 19-year-old beauty there and ending up alone. The film concludes with two young people talking, each the child of workers, each relaying a story of one visit to a factory. Times change.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Joan Chen, Jianbin Chen, Liping Lü
Director: Zhangke Jia
Mountains May Depart / Shan he gu ren (2015)
Drama | Romance
China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From 1999 to 2025, from China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society changing at breakneck speed.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Dong Liang, Zijian Dong, Sylvia Chang
Director: Zhangke Jia
A Touch of Sin / Tian zhu ding (2013)
Drama
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Baoqiang Wang, Wu Jiang, Sanming Han, Hongwei Wang
Director: Zhangke Jia
The World / Shijie (2004)
Drama
"The World" is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world's famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen here not from the visitors' point of view but through the eyes of a few of its staff, lonely people, communicating poorly, a bit disillusioned with life, glittering for the tourists but dull and restricted as far as they are concerned. We meet, among others, pretty young dancer Tao and Taisheng, a security guard who is fond of her but not of personal commitment…
Starring: Tao Zhao, Taisheng Chen, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang, Yiqun Huang, Hongwei Wang, Jing Dong Liang, Shuai Ji, Wan Xiang, Alla Shcherbakova
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
