Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 8) - "Caught by the Tides"

From the venue:

Caught by the Tides, directed by Jia Zhang-ke // 2024 // 111 minutes // Mandarin // Country, China

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.