Jia Zhang Ke's Still Life is a leading example of China's Sixth Generation cinema.
This Golden Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in an ancient town on the Yangtze River.
Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region, Jia Zhang Ke tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and a woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie, an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is being demolished and will soon vanish for ever in the flooding caused by the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.
