funeral ritual

His film 'After Life' directly explores funeral rituals and the afterlife, examining how people process grief and memory through the lens of a waystation between worlds.

Multiple works including 'The Taste of Cherry' and 'Ten' deeply engage with mortality, loss, and ritualistic mourning practices within Iranian culture and human existence.

His austere, meditative films like 'Sátántangó' and 'Tilapia' explore death, decay, and ceremonial human behavior with profound existential weight and formal precision.