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Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke to Be Honored at Visions du Réel Film Festival
Jia Zhangke, who 'humanizes China's modern history and turns it into poetry,' according to one critic, will be the guest of honor at Visions du Réel.
His entire career has also been honored at some of the world’s most renowned film festivals, including Locarno, where he received the Golden Leopard in 2010, and Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, which awarded him the Carrosse d’Or in 2015. Emilie Bujès, artistic director of Visions du Réel, said: “Switching from taught thrillers to documentaries and encompassing a myriad hybrid formats, woven together by non-professional actors, fictional works on a canvas of reality, and fantasies bypassing otherwise restrained stories, Jia Zhangke has spent two decades creating a filmography as coherent as it is shifting.” Conceived with meager resources and without authorization, the film cast a disillusioned eye, in a distinct documentary style – like several of his other titles – on Chinese society, landing it with a national broadcast ban.
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