cyclical poverty

His socially conscious films like 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes' expose how institutional systems trap families in generational poverty cycles.

Films such as 'Shoplifters' and 'Nobody Knows' intimately portray how economic desperation and family dysfunction perpetuate poverty across generations.

His works including 'Bacurau' and 'Neighbouring Sounds' examine how class structures, inequality, and systemic oppression create inescapable cycles of poverty and marginalization.