Check out the trailer for ‘Caught by the Tides,’ a film over 20 years in the making from master Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, coming to theaters May 9, 2025, from Sideshow and Janus Films. Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine writes, “This is a masterpiece from one of the world’s great directors. Think of it as his ‘Boyhood’, but he’s chronicling not just one person changing but an entire nation and culture.”
Read More Check out the trailer for ‘Caught by the Tides,’ a film over 20 years in the making from master Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, coming to theaters May 9, 2025, from Sideshow and Janus Films. Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine writes, “This is a masterpiece from one of the world’s great directors. Think of it as his ‘Boyhood’, but he’s chronicling not just one person changing but an entire nation and culture.”The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies, unused scenes, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Caught by the Tides is a free-flowing work of unspoken longing, carried along more by music than dialogue as it looms around the edges of a poignant love story. The film mostly adheres to the per