Jia Zhang-ke is the greatest documentor of contemporary Chinese life, an artist whose use of fiction and non-fiction is driven by his relentless curiosity about the ways in which the nation’s own transformation is reflected in the lives of his own restless generation. In CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, Jia blends documentary and fiction around a fragile love story, as Qiaoqiao (Tao Zhao) searches across the decades for a lost love who abandoned her in a quest to find his fortune in the early days of China’s economic boom.

In Mandarin with English subtitles.