rural versus urban life

His films like 'Still Walking' and 'Shoplifters' explore the tension between urban isolation and rural family bonds, examining how modernization affects human connections.

His socially conscious films such as 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' powerfully depict the struggles of working-class rural and urban communities facing economic hardship.

Her films 'Nomadland' and 'The Rider' intimately document the lives of those caught between rural displacement and urban marginalization in contemporary America.