property rights

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Nobody Knows' explore how society defines ownership, belonging, and who has the right to claim space and family.

His socially conscious cinema repeatedly examines how property ownership systems exclude the poor, as seen in 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes'.

Her documentaries and features, particularly 'The Gleaners and I', investigate who owns resources, land, and the right to gather from society's margins.