boarding house life

His films intimately explore communal living spaces and the bonds formed between unrelated people sharing confined quarters, particularly in works like 'Shoplifters' and 'Nobody Knows'.

He consistently examines the lives of working-class individuals in shared housing and institutional settings, exposing the social realities of precarious communal living in films like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake'.

Her documentary-style narratives capture the transient communities and makeshift boarding arrangements of nomadic and displaced populations, most notably in 'Nomadland'.