Caught by the Tides
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Official selection, 2024 Cannes Film Festival
An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin, set in China, in the early 2000s. When a restless Guao Bin leaves without any notice to try his luck in another province, Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him. In chronicling the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Jia Zhangke delivers an unprecedented cinematic epic. A story that runs through all of his past films and spans more than 20 years in a country experiencing profound transformation.
Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and writer. He is the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival, the dean of Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dean of Vancouver Film School at 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 are therefore 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 Golden Lion for Still Life in 2006. He received the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the Carrosse d'or lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, and an honorary award at the Visions du Réel in 2024.
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