Intro by Italo Spinelli
  Focus on Tehran
Tribute to Majid Majidi
Tribute to Garin Nugroho
  Directors
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Awards
  Credits
Ren Xiao Yao
Unknown Pleasure
Jia Zhangke
Best friends Xiao Ji and Bin are jobless. They have time to wander round town on motorbikes and to hang out at the smoky recreation centre. Xiao Ji has a real crush on pretty Qiao Qiao, a dancer and a model. In the meantime, Bin Bin’s mother wants his son to join the army. The story of a generation which sees future dictated by money and financial gain.
 

 
Screenplay/ Jia Zhang-ke
Photography (colour)/ Yu Lik Wai
Editing/ Chow Keung
Cast/ Zhao Tao, Zhao Wei Wei, Wu Qiong
Production/ Shozo Ichiyama, T-Mark
Year of Production/ 2002
Running Time/ 113’
 
Jia Zhang-ke was born in 1970. He started his career as a painter at the age of eighteen. He then developed an interest in literature and cinema. He received international attention for his two films Xiao Wu (Pickpocket, 1997) and Platform (2000).

 

 


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