long-distance separation

His films like 'In the Mood for Love' and '2046' capture the ache of emotional and physical distance between lovers through visual poetry and melancholic atmospheres.

Works such as 'Nobody Knows' and 'Like Father, Like Son' explore the profound emotional chasms created by separation within families and relationships across time and space.

Her films including 'Vagabond' and 'The Gleaners and I' document isolation, displacement, and the connections (or lack thereof) between people separated by circumstance and society.