Mountains May Depart

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Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART. At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia’s film is an intensely moving study of how China’s economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Screening as part of Time and Tide: The Films of Jia Zhang-ke

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  • Country China
  • Language Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles, English
  • Year 2015
  • Running Time 131 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Kino Lorber
  • Director Jia Zhang-ke
  • Cast Zhao Tao, Yi Zhang, Liang Jingdong, Zijian Dong, Sylvia Chang
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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