Tracing the thread…
His films systematically document how welfare systems and economic policies abandon vulnerable individuals and families on the margins of society.
Hirokazu Koreeda JapanHe explores social isolation and abandonment through intimate portrayals of families fractured by poverty, shame, and institutional neglect.
Chloé Zhao China/United StatesHer work examines economic displacement and social invisibility, following characters left behind by systems that have forgotten them.