THEME EXPLORATION

resilience

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
To Live
To Live
1994 · Zhang Yimou
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Steve McQueen
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2018 · Stephen Nomura Schible
Volver
Volver
2006 · Pedro Almodóvar
Cast Away
Cast Away
2000 · Robert Zemeckis
Utama
Utama
2022 · Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Untitled
Untitled
2019 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
As Far as I Can Walk
As Far as I Can Walk
2021 · Stefan Arsenijević
Hibiscus Town
Hibiscus Town
1988 · Xie Jin
Hi, Tereska
Hi, Tereska
2001 · Robert Gliński
Babusya
Babusya
2003 · Yuliya Shashkova
Lucky Miles
Lucky Miles
2007 · Michael James Rowland
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Abderrahmane Sissako Mauritania · Kiffa

Patient, ritualistic cinema where desert silence becomes a space for ethical reckoning.

 Sheron R. Dayoc

Patient witnessing of forgotten lives through extended takes that honor quiet human dignity.

 Baltasar Kormákur Iceland

Stark Nordic storytelling that explores human endurance against natural and psychological extremes.