protection and shelter

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Nobody Knows' intimately explore how families create shelter and protection within broken systems and economic hardship.

His socially conscious cinema repeatedly examines institutional failures to protect vulnerable people and the human struggles for dignity and safe spaces.

Her films including 'Girlhood' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' center on how characters find emotional and physical refuge within intimate relationships and chosen communities.