Still Life – San Xia Hao Ren

Dir Jia Zhangke, China 2006

In association with BFI / Part of China Now

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, Still Life is the vivid and absorbing tale of two individuals struggling to keep up with the dizzying pace of change in 21st-century China.

Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region along the Yangtze River, the stories of two people searching for their missing partners are intertwined.

'One of the world’s most important filmmakers' – New York Times