Separation from family

His films like 'Nobody Knows' and 'Like Father, Like Son' poignantly explore family bonds fractured by absence, abandonment, and the painful search for belonging.

Through socially conscious realism in films like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake', he captures how economic hardship and circumstance tear families apart across generations.

Her fragmented visual storytelling in works like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'A Distant Episode' examines psychological and emotional distance within families with haunting intimacy.