Screening times:
Friday, 23 May, 6:30 PM
Sunday, 25 May, 5:30 PM

Zhang-Ke Jia | China | 2024 | 111m
Mandarin with English subtitles
with Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin

An enduring but fragile love story set in China, starting in the early 2000s and continuing to the present day. Caught up in each other, Qiaoqiao and Bin enjoyed all the city of Datong had to offer, singing and dancing. One day, restless Bin decides to try his luck in another province. He leaves without notice. Years later, Qiaoqiao embarks on a journey to find him.

Traversing all of his past films, Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiaoqiao. Shot over 21 years, reflecting a country going through profound emotional and social transformation, the film gives a new perspective on contemporary China.

Jia Zhangke is the multi-award-winning director of Still Life (which won the Venice Golden Lion), A Touch of Sin (which won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes), Platform, and Ash is Purest White. Here he offers a a cinematic testament to time, societal expansion, and the continuity of human connection.

"As emotionally effective as it is formally brilliant, it draws on a trove of material — both fiction and nonfiction — that Jia began shooting in 2001 while working on another movie." - Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"A mesmerizing film about the sweep and swirl of life, love, and the relationship between yesterday and today." - Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

"What Jia has captured here is the aging not of an individual but of a country... But Caught by the Tides cuts deeper still. Through the strange miracle of its existence, it shows us that the art of the motion picture is aging, too." - Justin Chang, The New Yorker

Tickets $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available)