THEME EXPLORATION

migration and escapism

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Barbie
Barbie
2023 · Greta Gerwig
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
Heavenly Creatures
Heavenly Creatures
1994 · Peter Jackson
Moi, un noir
Moi, un noir
1958 · Jean Rouch
Manila in the Claws of Light
Manila in the Claws of Light
1975 · Lino Brocka
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty
Atlantics
Atlantics
2019 · Mati Diop
Distant
Distant
2002 · Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Ixcanul
Ixcanul
2015 · Jayro Bustamante
Tony Manero
Tony Manero
2008 · Pablo Larraín
Ali Zaoua Prince of the Streets
Ali Zaoua Prince of the Streets
2000 · Nabil Ayouch
Los amantes pasajeros (I’m So Excited!
Los amantes pasajeros (I’m So Excited!
2013 · Pedro Almodóvar
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Chloé Zhao China/USA

Her films explore rootlessness and survival, depicting characters traversing landscapes in search of belonging and escape from economic precarity.

 Agnès Varda France

She documents wandering, displacement, and the lives of drifters and outsiders seeking freedom and new identities beyond societal constraints.

 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

His meditative cinema explores memory, displacement, and spiritual escapism through characters navigating borders, loss, and dreamlike states of consciousness.