French powerhouse MK2 Films has secured worldwide rights to “ Torino Shadow ,” a 32-minute short by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke that is set to screen in the Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival . The acquisition deepens a major director partnership for MK2, which now handles eight titles from Jia’s catalogue, along with Walter Salles’ documentary portrait “Jia Zhangke, a Guy from Fenyang.” Starring regular Jia collaborator Zhao Tao, “Torino Shadow” moves between China and Turin and emerged from Torino Encounters, a short-film commissioning initiative run by Turin’s Museo Nazionale del Cinema that draws on the institution’s archives and collections as creative raw material. Popular on Variety “I make films, but first and foremost I am a film lover,” said Jia. “I’ve long wanted to make a film paying tribute to the art of cinema, but I never knew where to start. In 2025, Carlo Chatrian reached out to me with the idea of making a short film in tribute to the art of film.…