EXCLUSIVE: Jia Zhangke‘s Cannes Competition entry Caught By The Tides has been set for U.S. release on May 9, 2025 via Sideshow and Janus Films.
The latest from the Chinese auteur, known for movies including A Touch Of Sin and Ash Is The Purest White, is love story told over 23 years and set against the backdrop of explosive growth in China. Made up of old footage shot by the filmmaker over the past century as well as some new, the film traverses personal and national history including all of his films to date. Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin star.
Written by Jia and Wan Jiahuan, pic is produced by Casper Liang Jiayan, Shozo Ichiyama and Zhang Dong. The film is an X Stream Pictures, Momo Pictures, Huanxi Media Group Limited (Beijing) and Wishart Media (Quanzhou) production in association with mk2 Films, Ad Vitam and Bitters End. It played at festivals including Cannes, Toronto, Busan and London.
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Sideshow and Janus Films said: “Jia Zhangke is one of the twenty-first century’s most important filmmakers and with Caught By The Tides he delivers what will surely be considered one of his great films that gives us the gift of watching Zhao Tao across over two decades culminating in one of the best scenes of their career together. We are thrilled to bring this to American audiences on May 9th, 2025.”
In their four-year collaboration, Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired arthouse hits including Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar winner Drive My Car, Jerzy Skolimowski’s Oscar nominated EO as well as films by Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Leos Carax, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Jafar Panahi, Christian Petzold and Wim Wenders. In 2024, the company released Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light as well as Gints Zibalodis’ Oscar winner Flow.
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