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
The Continent / Hou hui wu qi (2014)
Drama
Three men go on a road trip to find a new life away from the island they live on.
Starring: Shaofeng Feng, Wallace Chung, Bo-lin Chen, Joe Chen, Zhangke Jia, Luodan Wang
Director: Han Han
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
