2024 - 69th Edition

Caught by the Tides

Feng liu yi dai

Jia Zhang-ke

China

- 2024

Estreno nacional

The love story between Guao Bin and Qiao Qiao spans two decades in the recent turbulent history of China to the point where he is forced to find work in other latitudes, while she decides whether to stay and wait for him or set off in her quest. The new masterpiece by Jia Zhangke, one of the indisputable references of contemporary cinema, traces how the sweeping tides of change that China has undergone throughout the 21st century have affected the human scale, in part by recovering archive material from his previous films such as Unknown Pleasures and Still Life. The director of The World thus delivers an insightful reflection on how the passage of time has transformed his country, as well as how it has left its mark on his own filmography. Caught By The Tides becomes an indispensable ode to its protagonist, Zhao Tao, one of the most remarkable and underrated actresses of our time.

Jia Zhang-ke

Born in Fenyang, China in 1970 and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. His first feature film, ‘Pickpocket’ (1997), won awards at Berlin, Vancouver and other festivals. Since then, his films have regularly premiered at major European festivals. In Venice, where he won the Golden Lion in 2006 for ‘Still Life’, he has competed with ‘Platform’ (2000), ‘The World’ (2004), Dong (2006) and ‘Useless’ (2007). He returned to Berlin in 2020 with his documentary ‘Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue’. And at Cannes, where he won the award for best screenplay in 2013 for ‘A Touch of Sin’, he was also selected for ‘Unknown Pleasures’ (2002), ’24 City’ (2008), ‘I Wish I Knew’ (2010), ‘Mountains May Depart’ (2015), ‘Ash is Purest White’ (2018) and ‘Caught by the Tides’ (2024).

O.V. in Mandarin subtitled in English and Spanish