biological versus chosen family

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Broker' explore unconventional family bonds formed through circumstance and love rather than blood relations.

Her work, particularly 'Lady Bird' and 'Little Women,' examines the complex tensions between biological family obligations and chosen emotional connections.

His films 'Moonlight' and 'If Beale Street Could Talk' powerfully depict how marginalized characters create chosen families as survival and love in the absence of supportive biological ones.