family abandonment

His films like 'Nobody Knows' and 'After the Storm' intimately explore parental neglect and the emotional scars of familial abandonment through deeply humanistic narratives.

His socially conscious cinema frequently depicts how economic hardship and systemic failure force families to abandon one another, as seen in 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes'.

Her fragmented, visceral storytelling in films like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' examines the psychological devastation of parental neglect and emotional disconnection.