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THEME EXPLORATION

search for homeland

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves
1948 · Vittorio De Sica
Days of Being Wild
Days of Being Wild
1991 · Wong Kar-wai
Landscape in the Mist
Landscape in the Mist
1988 · Theo Angelopoulos & Theodoros Angelopoulos
Nostalgia for the Light
Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · Patricio Guzmán
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Stanley Kubrick
Ikarie XB-1
Ikarie XB-1
1963 · Jindřích Polák
End of the Lonely Farm Berhof
End of the Lonely Farm Berhof
1984 · Jiří Svoboda
Le Feu Follet
Le Feu Follet
1963 · Louis Malle
Angel
Angel
2007 · François Ozon
Life and Nothing More…/…And Life Goes On
Life and Nothing More…/…And Life Goes On
1992 · Abbas Kiarostami
Identificazione di una donna
Identificazione di una donna
1982 · Michelangelo Antonioni
The Divine Voyage
The Divine Voyage
1929 · Julien Duvivier
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union

His films explore spiritual displacement and the longing for transcendence as a form of searching for belonging beyond physical borders.

Wong Kar-wai → Hong Kong

His work captures the melancholic search for identity and home in urban spaces, particularly relevant to Hong Kong's complex cultural positioning.

Agnès Varda → France

Her documentary and narrative works traverse geographical and emotional landscapes, examining rootlessness, memory, and the search for connection and place.

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