fugitive life

His films consistently chronicle the lives of society's fugitives—economically displaced individuals struggling against systemic forces that make them outsiders in their own communities.

His work explores fugitive existence through wandering protagonists fleeing social constraints, literal persecution, or inner turmoil, particularly in films like 'A Taste of Cherry' and 'The Wind Will Carry Us.'

Her films celebrate and document the lives of social outsiders and vagabonds, most notably in 'Vagabond,' which follows a young woman drifting through society as a self-imposed fugitive from convention.