Three Films By Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke has become widely regarded as one of world cinema’s most accomplished
filmmakers and a leading figure of the Sixth Generation movement of Chinese cinema.
This collection presents three of Jia’s most compelling works together on DVD and Bluray.
In 24 City (2008) Jia skilfully combines documentary and fiction film as he charts the
transformation of a military hardware factory into a complex of luxury flats, and the social
impact this has.

The Cannes prize-winner A Touch of Sin (2013) focuses on four people living across
China who are driven to acts of violence. An angry miner, enraged by corruption in his
village; a migrant who discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm; a
receptionist at a sauna who is pushed to the limit by a client, and a young factory worker
drifting through the foreign-owned factories and nightclubs of the south.
Jia’s eighth feature film, Mountains May Depart (2015) is an intimate and moving drama
spanning several decades which charts the impact of China’s capitalist experiment on
the lives of one family.