drought and environmental hardship

His documentaries and films obsessively explore harsh landscapes and human struggle against nature's indifference, particularly in works like 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo'.

His visually poetic films deeply engage with themes of scarcity, suffering, and environmental desolation, as seen in 'The Color of Pomegranates' and 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'.