This documentary-drama hybrid is one of the best new movies our critic's seen this year. It draws on archival footage to tell a story of two lovers separating and reuniting over roughly two decades.

F or years, Jia Zhangke imagined that the film that would become Caught by the Tides would be his last. He had been capturing and archiving acres of footage since 2001— everythi ...

Launched just a few months ago by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke and distribution veteran Tian Qi, Unknown Pleasures Pictures ...

It was my first Jia Zhangke film when I was studying abroad in Toronto. It was from then I came to understand and be interested in arthouse cinema.

In 2025, director Jia Zhangke and I co-founded this new distribution company, Unknown Pleasures Pictures. DL: Can you share more details of the kind of films you’re acquiring? Tian Qi: Our next ...

During the pandemic, the Chinese director Jia Zhangke, like many of us ... to seeing archival material in documentaries, but this film is something far rarer and stranger: It's an archival ...