THEME EXPLORATION

orphan journey

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977 · George Lucas
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1995 · Michael Haneke
Landscape in the Mist
Landscape in the Mist
1988 · Theo Angelopoulos & Theodoros Angelopoulos
Wrong Move
Wrong Move
1975 · Wim Wenders
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
2015 · J.J. Abrams
Rain Man
Rain Man
1988 · Barry Levinson
Salt of this Sea
Salt of this Sea
2008 · Annemarie Jacir
Tourettes
Tourettes
1971 · David Cronenberg
Central Station
Central Station
1998 · Walter Salles
Worldly Desires
Worldly Desires
2005 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans
2010 · Louis Leterrier
Gypsy
Gypsy
2011 · Rachel Leah Jones
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Hirokazu Koreeda Japan

His films like 'Nobody Knows' and 'Shoplifters' intimately explore the lives of orphaned and abandoned children navigating survival and family bonds outside institutional systems.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

Through works like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake', he portrays vulnerable youth and marginalized individuals facing systemic abandonment with unflinching social realism.

 Lynne Ramsay United Kingdom

Her films 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'The Lost River' examine damaged, isolated protagonists shaped by trauma and displacement in fragmented psychological journeys.