family and legacy

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'After the Storm' intimately explore family bonds, generational trauma, and what it means to belong across fractured households.

Through 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar,' he excavates how family secrets and inherited pain shape identity and haunt subsequent generations.

Her works like 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' and 'Petite Maman' delicately examine maternal legacies, female lineage, and the transmission of emotional knowledge between generations.