THEME EXPLORATION

isolation and human connection

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Her
Her
2013 · Spike Jonze
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water
2017 · Guillermo del Toro
Passengers
Passengers
2016 · Morten Tyldum
Winter Sleep
Winter Sleep
2014 · Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Lunchbox
The Lunchbox
2013 · Ritesh Batra
Attenberg
Attenberg
2010 · Athina Rachel Tsangari
Cast Away
Cast Away
2000 · Robert Zemeckis
The Martian
The Martian
2015 · Ridley Scott
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul & David Lowery & Jafar Panahi
Le Feu Follet
Le Feu Follet
1963 · Louis Malle
Streetheart
Streetheart
1998 · Charles Binamé
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Denis Villeneuve Canada

Merges intimate human drama with vast, immersive visual landscapes to explore existential uncertainty.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His meditative films explore spiritual isolation and the yearning for transcendent human connection through long, introspective sequences.

 Hirokazu Koreeda Japan

He examines the delicate bonds within fractured families and communities, revealing how isolation paradoxically brings people closer together.