Tracing the thread…
His social realist films explore how economic circumstances force people into constrained living situations and difficult relationships.
Hirokazu Koreeda JapanHis intimate family dramas examine the complexities of people bound together by blood or circumstance, navigating shared spaces and unspoken tensions.
Chloé Zhao China/United StatesHer films depict characters trapped in economic precarity who must adapt to unexpected communal living and interdependence with strangers.